Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps

[Tom Wijsman]

On Sun, 27 Jul 2014 03:12:07 +1000
Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o> wrote:

> On 07/26/2014 07:59 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote:
> > On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 22:14:41 +1000
> > Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o> wrote:
> >
> >> On 07/23/2014 09:36 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote:
> >>> On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 18:21:00 +1000
> >>> Michael Palimaka <kensington@g.o> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> What a great way to kill the distro.
> >>>>
> >>>> I can already heat my house with the number of unnecessary
> >>>> rebuilds
> >>>
> >>> Do you upgrade @world every hour and thus have it cause excessive
> >>> heat?
> >>>
> >>> If I upgrade every X weeks they become much more cool and
> >>> necessary...
> >>>
> >>
> >> Shouldn't we strive to avoid the unnecessary rebuilds in the first
> >> place? Doing updates on your schedule only avoids the symptom, not
> >> the problem.
> >
> > We should strive to do both; cause less rebuilds, update less often.
> >
> > It is comparable to flooding on IRC channels; if you send much more
> > messages, you are much more likely to experience a kick and/or a
> > ban.
> >
> > It is easier not to flood than to convince people there is no
> > problem with you flooding the channel; out of all the IRC channels
> > I know of, I've only come across one where they don't mind pasted
> > long code blocks but that's mostly because of the lack of active
> > moderation and people.
> >
> > (With "flooding" as "updating" and "kick/ban" as "rebuilds")
> >
> Each person should update at a frequency that suits them. Recommending
> to update every $period is not a valid solution to unnecessary
> rebuilds.

The more one floods, the more one accepts kicks and/or bans; expected.

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With kind regards,

Tom Wijsman (TomWij)
Gentoo Developer

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