On 07/27/2014 05:21 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote: > 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. >
How about just not causing the problem in the first place? :-)
