On Sun, Nov 29, 2015 at 10:42 PM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On Sun, 29 Nov 2015 19:56:04 -0800 > "Gregory M. Turner" <g...@be-evil.net> wrote: > > the mess gets magically cleaned up by robots somehow. > > Sadly := can't help here since gcc switches occur independently of > package installs. And AFAIK revdep-rebuild doesn't help either.
Indeed... magical hand-wavey part is the only teeny-tiny flaw with my proposal that the problem be magically, hand-wavically solved -- otherwise, it's rock-solid :) OTOH when you're spending ten hours a week waiting for revdep-rebuild, preserved-rebuild stops seeming like an intractable fantasy and more like an interesting puzzle you'd might as well take a crack at solving. I dunno about y'all but my not-really-that-computationally-powerful workstation has 2000 packages installed, about three-quarters of which seem to have forked webkit (just kidding, but it sure feels that way). emerge -e @world literally takes me two days if I'm lucky. If I'm not, more like a week, with my cores left mostly idling while my productivity is thwarted by various non-webkit-compiling distractions like using the toilet or working. Point being, it's damn slow; I'm starting to feel like the guy waiting for revdep-rebuild all week. There's gotta be a way to do it. If it requires some encapsulation-breaking hacks to get it done (as preserved-rebuild kinda did) it's probably well worth it. -gmt Greg Turner g...@be-evil.net
