hi folks,

i'm a brand new gentoo user and i have to say this system
is pretty nifty.  i wouldn't have believed it possible to
build a usable system from source in <a day on a pII-300
with not much memory, but gentoo did it.  i guess having
very well defined usage patterns and knowing which 20
programs i actually use helped keep my system svelte
at around 800MByte including an untarred kernel and
xfree86 source+obj tree...
(ok, i admit it, i cheated and injected the binary
openoffice package, since that took 6 hours to build
on my 8x faster/6xmore mem machine at work)

anyhow, i write primarily not to praise gentoo, but to ask
a question.  i'm still marvelling at the shiny
        emerge sync ; emerge -uv world
process that keeps me at the front edge of things, so i
do it almost daily.  i'm wondering if there's an
easy way to see what's changed in a package between
the last release and the current release? (for instance,
my window manager ratpoison wants to be upgraded from the
installed 1.2.2 to 1.2.2-r1.  this sounds like a tiny
change.  i'd like to see if it's worth listening to my
disk grind for 20 minutes.)

it seems likely that i can grab the newer ebuild and
diff it against whatever's still cached from the old build.
i'd welcome instructions in that direction if there's no
better tool.  seems like emerge or qpkg probably has some
way to show me the changelog, but i can't seem to find it
in the docs.

thanks in advance for any advice.

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