Ciaran McCreesh: > On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 16:16:20 +0000 > hasufell <hasuf...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> Ciaran McCreesh: >>> On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 15:32:56 +0000 >>> hasufell <hasuf...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>>> Ciaran McCreesh: >>>>> 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. >>>> >>>> Why not? >>> >>> If "not having to do lots of compiling" is your goal, you're using >>> the wrong distribution. >>> >> >> I cannot see an argument against avoiding useless rebuilds here. > > They're not useless: they result in a change to VDB. That's all that > matters, as can be seen by Gentoo not supporting partial rebuilds for > revbumps where only a small text file is changed. >
If the change to VDB is useless, then the rebuild is useless.
