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On 4/22/20 3:15 PM, Michael Jones wrote: |
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> Why would I need to emerge world? Portage knows the full list of |
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> packages that depend on openssl, transitively. |
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> Unless you're generalizing to say that (almost) everything depends on |
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> openssl, I suppose. |
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> Also, didn't the handbook, at one point, say not to sync portage more |
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> than once a day? So why would package installations happen 20 times per |
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> day? |
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It's not that everything depends on OpenSSL, but that everything depends |
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on /something/. If everything is statically linked, then any update of |
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any package sets off a chain reaction of other packages that trigger |
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rebuilds of other packages that trigger rebuilds of... |
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If you only sync once a day, then yes, you'll only have to rebuild once |
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a day. I sync considerably more than that though, and besides, it takes |
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me about a week to emerge -e @world. |
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