On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 2:19 PM Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 4/22/20 3:15 PM, Michael Jones wrote: > > > > Why would I need to emerge world? Portage knows the full list of > > packages that depend on openssl, transitively. > > > > Unless you're generalizing to say that (almost) everything depends on > > openssl, I suppose. > > > > Also, didn't the handbook, at one point, say not to sync portage more > > than once a day? So why would package installations happen 20 times per > > day? > > It's not that everything depends on OpenSSL, but that everything depends > on /something/. If everything is statically linked, then any update of > any package sets off a chain reaction of other packages that trigger > rebuilds of other packages that trigger rebuilds of... > > If you only sync once a day, then yes, you'll only have to rebuild once > a day. I sync considerably more than that though, and besides, it takes > me about a week to emerge -e @world. > > Well, I suppose that's the consequence that someone would have to accept if they wanted to link things statically. I use static libraries for work in some situations, and understand the cost of using them But I don't generally want my entire system statically linked, only a few things. Regardless, thank you for clarifying.
