On Mon, 5 Aug 2013 17:13:49 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Aug 2013 02:03:28 +1000 > Michael Palimaka <kensing...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > How often does this situation even come up? If 9/10 times the > > > libraries are set up as maintainers expect them to be, it is > > > probably better to deal with the odd unnecessary rebuild until > > > somebody spots it, rather than going without support for slot > > > operator deps. > > > > With respect, "good enough" is not a very high standard to aim for. > > In my opinion, adding unnecessary subslot dependencies is no > > different to adding overly-wide dependencies. > > There's a world of difference between a horrible breakage and an > occasional unnecessary compile. If users are concerned about how they > spend their CPU time, they're using the wrong distribution. there is something wrong in the way its done if there are 'occasional unnecessary compiles' 'horrible breakage' is mitigated by preserve-libs and running @preserved-rebuild as soon as possible has the same end result avoiding useless rebuilds.
