> > 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? > > 2000/2001 ? Right! But look what year it is now. I'm talking about deleting changelog entries OLDER than a certain point. > Really, this is very package dependent - some subsystems are very tied > to a particular distribution release (because they depend on very > specific features), others packages can happily be dropped in 5-years- > old systems after just a rebuild. then like owen suggested: how about the most recent year or the last 10, whichever is more? > As a matter of fact, since a RHEL lifetime is 5 years truncating > anything older than that would probably be ok. But there *will* be > people who install a first-gen RHEL2.1 (because that's the version their > OS dpt validated) near RHEL2.1 end-of-life who'll then update it > partially or completely to the latest updates. So in some cases, 5y is a > reasonable minimum. > This is not a discussion of rhel. this is fedora-devel-list. -sv
