Tom Wijsman <tom...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Michael Palimaka <kensing...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> What a great way to kill the distro. >> >> I can already heat my house with the number of unnecessary rebuilds > > Do you upgrade @world every hour and thus have it cause excessive heat? > > If I upgrade every X weeks they become much more cool and necessary...
One of the main advantages of gentoo is the flowing upgrade, especially since this can only be very poorly emulated by a binary distro. If you really suggest that the user waits one month and then recompiles the whole installation, you give up this advantage of gentoo: The user is not up-to-date for a long time, and moreover, then needs practically a full reinstall; both are things which he wants to avoid and why perhaps he has chosen gentoo in the first place. At least, for me it is the case: if I have to reinstall all packages every months - and even have delay in security updates for a month - I will certainly switch the distribution. I guess many others think similarly.
