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On Wed, Jan 18, 2006 at 11:40:44AM +0100, Michael Ulm wrote: |
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> Our family computer has many different tasks to perform |
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> and consequently has many packages emerged. Several of |
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> these packages were not available for amd64 stable, so I |
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> got the ~amd64 versions. This of course led to the need |
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> to also pull in ~amd64 dependencies. And those dependencies |
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> grow. |
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> It seems like just about every time I do an |
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> emerge --update --deep world |
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> I have to change some package to ~amd64. At the moment, I have |
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> more than 50 entries in my package.keywords file. Of course, |
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> I didn't keep track which ebuilds I originally emerged using |
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> ~amd64, and if some of them are now available in stable. |
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It is called growth without bounds. |
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My package count goes up steadily even if "I" don't add |
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anything. |
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Brian Litzinger |
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