i'd like to see a local installed-application "changelo

[skweegie]

hihi all,

long time slacker here playing with this new fun distro...

anyways, im used to fully knowing everything in terms of software that i put into my system since i had full control over what i choose to install (inclusive of any necessary dependencies that my desired app necessitated during a slackpack build).

i have gotten pretty addicted to the concept of changelogs during the slack buildup before every one of their releases.

what i propose is that since portage for the casual user installs all necessary sources for any given app during an emerge (of which i am pretty sure the casual user does not personally log what was installed during that emerge), i would think it would be a cool feature if portage included a changelog for the user's system.

what i mean by this is that your system would have a "changelog" where by ur chosen app and any app that was installed as a dependency via portage gets logged to a file where the date and timestamp and app name and version gets listed in aforementioned file. starting such a log is pivotal in backtracking application/version installs especially since portage creates a somewhat seamless installation path for the casual user that just wants to install stuff.

lemme know what u think...

cheers

[klieber]

[skweegie]

[klieber]

OK, but what advantage does that give you over simply grepping /var/db/pkg? All the information is there -- it's just in a different format.

Regardless, it should be relatively straightforward to create a script that will pull the information from /var/db/pkg, along with the datestamps and put them into a text file like you're looking for. If you're really interested in such a beast, why not give creating one a shot? It would likely be a welcome addition to gentoolkit as well.

--kurt
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