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Michael Orlitzky posted on Tue, 15 Aug 2017 23:22:54 -0400 as excerpted: |
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> On 08/14/2017 08:01 AM, Jason Zaman wrote: |
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>> I'll give an example where revbumps are significantly inferior to |
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>> --changed-use. |
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>> ... With --changed-use, only the people who need it (ie selinux users) |
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>> will rebuild and everyone is happy (selinux users because the program |
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>> now works and non-selinux users because they did not rebuild for no |
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>> reason). |
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> But this benefit exists only for Portage users, and can only be obtained |
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> by throwing the others under the bus. |
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But even if that's the case (I wouldn't know), it's the case due to a |
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deliberate decision of those going "under the bus", because portage is |
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the default, and by choosing to use some other PM, they've deliberately |
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chosen its (non-PMS) features over those of portage. |
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Just as I, by choosing --newuse instead, have chosen to do rebuilds in |
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such cases, even with portage. |
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(Tho TBH I've never noticed that particular case, probably because it's |
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lost in the noise compared to --changed-deps (enabled when static-deps |
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were newer and I wanted to be sure, likely unneeded these days) and smart- |
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live-rebuild of my (live) kde packages.) |
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-- |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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