Re: [gentoo-dev] Omitting binary packages (emerge -e world)

[Dhruba Bandopadhyay]

A. Craig West wrote:
> On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote:
>
>
>>AFAIK this has not been done yet so I thought I would ask about it.
>>Usually, during emerge -e world all packages are recompiled including
>>binary packages which require no compilation.  However, it would be nice
>>if all binary packages were omitted from emerge -e world so only those
>>from source are included.  That way, time and resources are saved and only
>>those packages affected by new compiler or compiler settings are
>>recompiled.  How about it?
>
>
> On the other hand, when the last time I had to emerge -e world, it was because
> I was recovering from severe disk corruption, and I wanted ALL packages
> to be redone. The binary packages don't really take long anyways, because they
> don't really compile.
>

Hmm.  That's a good point and a good reason to include bins.  Well, 
injected packages should be omitted anyway.


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