On Mon, Sep 29, 2014 at 3:01 PM, Dima Pasechnik <dimp...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 2014-09-29, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I propose to remove the SAGE_UPGRADING variable and make it act like it
>> would be always "yes" (instead of "no", which is the current default).
>> Right now, we sabotage "make" to not rebuild dependencies of rebuilt
>> packages. So you don't have to wait long for your broken Sage installation.
>>
>> The only sane alternative would be to have it default to "yes", but I don't
>> really think that we really need something with such a narrow use case. You
>> can of course always only individual packages (sage -f) and only the sage
>> library (sage -b) if you are feeling lucky. But "make" should really
>> produce something that works IMHO.
>
> +1
>
> (just got bitten by that, again :-))

+1 -- that's how I had naively hoped it already worked, and I don't
want to get bit by this ever, and I have a fast enough computer....



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