On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 19:46:54 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >>> The news item also showed how to make it a global choice, avoiding > >>> the need to multiple per-package directories. > >> > >> I'm not sure that's a solution to the problem at all (which is why I > >> didn't do it on my machines either). > > If the problem is that you don't want things to be inconsistent, then > it _does_ solve the problem. > > >> Apart from always wasting much more work & resources than necessary > >> for no good reason > > The reason is that somebody wanted their system to be "consistent." I > don't think that's a particulary good reason, but that's the nice > thing aboug Gentoo. Everybody gets to decide what is important to > them, and build their system accordingly.
It's also practical as it requires no other changes to get your system working. However, it is even less efficient than I had envisaged. ABI_X86="64 32" emerge --update --deep --changed-use --with-bdeps y -pv @world gives Total: 237 packages (237 reinstalls), Whereas: grep -cv '^#' /etc/portage/package.use/abi_x86_32 gives 119 packages. So setting it globally would require three times as many packages to be rebuilt on this KDE system. -- Neil Bothwick You are a completely unique individual, just like everybody else.
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