On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 12:22 AM, Michael Palimaka <kensing...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 08/12/2017 09:50 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote: >> Q. But what about the rebuilds? >> >> For most packages, the rebuilds simply don't matter. Unless you're >> the maintainer of libreoffice, firefox, chromium, etc. -- just do the >> revision and forget about the (quick) rebuilds. > > I really wish people would stop trotting out this false argument. Not > everyone has the latest and greatest hardware. Rebuilds have a real cost > to end users and as such we should use them wisely. >
Agree, but maintainers would have the option to just not change IUSE at all until the next time they would revbump anyway. That saves rebuilds for those using --changed-use today. I'm not convinced that it is actually that easy for people to avoid --changed-use, and if they are using it then they're going to potentially get exposed to these rebuilds when IUSE changes. -- Rich
