[pacman-dev] Discussion about deprecating/removing the changelog feature from pacman.

Andrea Scarpino andrea at archlinux.org
Thu Jun 23 15:09:53 EDT 2011


On Thursday 23 June 2011 11:54:34 Dan McGee wrote:
> Sure, but this is Arch specific. I obviously had no intention of
> removing delta, xz, etc. but my point is the changelog functionality
> is exactly the same- it is a tool to use, but not something to be
> removed if it is not used.
I agree with Dan here.

I don't use the changelog feature, but maybe I, and we in general, should 
start to use it. pacman -Qc $pkg works for offline usage and is more fast then 
open the browser->go to the package page->svn log.

-- 
Andrea


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