From esr at thyrsus.com Mon Jan 31 17:37:54 2005 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============1467825573740645604==" MIME-Version: 1.0 From: Eric S. Raymond To: devel at lists.fedoraproject.org Subject: Re: radical suggestion for fc4 release Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 17:37:29 -0500 Message-ID: <20050131223729.GA30385@thyrsus.com> In-Reply-To: 41FEB198.7010706@nc.rr.com --===============1467825573740645604== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Jeff Johnson : > seth vidal wrote: > = > >Hi folks, > >this is a touch silly but possibly useful and it would definitely cut > >down on the old crap blocking up cdroms. > > > >how about if we kill all rpm spec file changelog entries OLDER than 2 > >years. > > > >they'll still live on in older srpms and rpms but it'd be a useful > >reduction and it would make the specfiles that much smaller, along with > >the rpm headers. > > = > > > = > +1 Oh, no. *Bad* idea. It's an attack on the symptom, not the problem. If changelogs are bloating the headers yum has to download, then = strip them out when generating the yum headers. -- = Eric S. Raymond --===============1467825573740645604==--