On Tue, Nov 13, 2007 at 11:57:49PM -0500, Justin Lampley wrote:
This feature can be beneficial in many ways, but mostly it is a good indicator (at least for me) of whether I should check out the change log of the program. With minor version increases, it is most likely minor updates or bug fixes, but if it is a major version increase, many things might have been changed that are worth checking up on before going through with the install.
For me too, it's a very valuable information that I missed several times in pacman (apt-get probably had it, but I don't remember how it was displayed..). So the only thing that bothers me is the way it's displayed, I don't find it very readable. But I don't have a better suggestion yet, besides maybe taking inspiration from other package managers.