On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 03:12:07 +1000 Michael Palimaka <kensing...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 07/26/2014 07:59 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > > On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 22:14:41 +1000 > > Michael Palimaka <kensing...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > >> On 07/23/2014 09:36 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > >>> On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 18:21:00 +1000 > >>> 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... > >>> > >> > >> Shouldn't we strive to avoid the unnecessary rebuilds in the first > >> place? Doing updates on your schedule only avoids the symptom, not > >> the problem. > > > > We should strive to do both; cause less rebuilds, update less often. > > > > It is comparable to flooding on IRC channels; if you send much more > > messages, you are much more likely to experience a kick and/or a > > ban. > > > > It is easier not to flood than to convince people there is no > > problem with you flooding the channel; out of all the IRC channels > > I know of, I've only come across one where they don't mind pasted > > long code blocks but that's mostly because of the lack of active > > moderation and people. > > > > (With "flooding" as "updating" and "kick/ban" as "rebuilds") > > > Each person should update at a frequency that suits them. Recommending > to update every $period is not a valid solution to unnecessary > rebuilds. The more one floods, the more one accepts kicks and/or bans; expected. -- With kind regards, Tom Wijsman (TomWij) Gentoo Developer E-mail address : tom...@gentoo.org GPG Public Key : 6D34E57D GPG Fingerprint : C165 AF18 AB4C 400B C3D2 ABF0 95B2 1FCD 6D34 E57D
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