Samuli Suominen posted on Sat, 30 Apr 2011 08:15:55 +0300 as excerpted: > On 04/30/2011 07:45 AM, Matt Turner wrote: >> On Sat, Apr 30, 2011 at 12:39 AM, Samuli Suominen >> <[email protected]> wrote: >>> sources.gentoo.org is for that. ChangeLog is for users, and "old" is >>> not useful information to them >> >> So it follows that users don't need to see when ebuilds were removed? >> >> > Correct. That information is not useful, except when it is (like when > last stable was removed for some reason) > > Enjoy: > > http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=365373
I'm a user, and despite the fact that I tend to run ~arch or even pre-tree testing overlays, I find ebuild removal information in the changelog WAY more useful than, say, when some obscure arch keyworded a version. Ergo, the argument that users don't find that info useful is disproven. Users DO find it useful. I /as/ a user find it useful and get rather annoyed when I'm trying to trace a change and there's no entry at all for it in the changelog! So, please /do/ make ebuild removal entries in the changelog, as users /do/ find them useful. =:^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
