> Meet you in the server room where outbound access is disabled for > security reasons and cvs is not installed on fileservers anyway. > > Stop thinking like a developer with full software support infrastructure > and net access. Field people rely on simple console text editors for a > reason - shit happens, and complex systems fail more often than simple > ones. Just assume no convenience will be available and you're be not far > from the reality you have today in countless enterprise or home > premises. > > %changelog is perfectly adapted to rpm usage. This is not one of the > "features" like rpm groups no one ever found a serious use for. > I'm not talking about removing ALL of them. Just the REALLY old ones. tell me - when was the last time you needed, in your server room, to know what changes were made in 1998 to a package? -sv
