On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 11:50:29 -0400 Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetrom...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Sat, 2014-06-14 at 16:13 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 16:41:51 +0200 > > Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > However, this means that we force much more rebuilds than > > > necessary. > > > > This shouldn't be considered to be a problem. > > This would be suicide for Gentoo as a distro. Organizations that have > a dedicated build server and a standardized /etc/portage config tree > pushed to all user machines could rebuild half of @world once a week. > Individual users running Gentoo on a single workstation or server > can't and won't.
Then either Gentoo should ship binary packages, or the user should find another distribution. Gentoo *already* does a full rebuild for packages whose bumps or revbumps just result in one text file changing. So long as there isn't a mechanism and full ebuild support in place to prevent this, it's a silly argument. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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