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From: Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2013 16:14:00
Message-Id: 20130805171349.15050f89@googlemail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: Remember to specify SLOT when adding subslot operator to dependencies by Michael Palimaka
1 On Tue, 06 Aug 2013 02:03:28 +1000
2 Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o> wrote:
3 > > How often does this situation even come up? If 9/10 times the
4 > > libraries are set up as maintainers expect them to be, it is
5 > > probably better to deal with the odd unnecessary rebuild until
6 > > somebody spots it, rather than going without support for slot
7 > > operator deps.
8 >
9 > With respect, "good enough" is not a very high standard to aim for.
10 > In my opinion, adding unnecessary subslot dependencies is no
11 > different to adding overly-wide dependencies.
12
13 There's a world of difference between a horrible breakage and an
14 occasional unnecessary compile. If users are concerned about how they
15 spend their CPU time, they're using the wrong distribution.
16
17 --
18 Ciaran McCreesh

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