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On Tue, 07 Jul 2015 08:04:47 +0800 |
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Patrick Lauer <patrick@g.o> wrote: |
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> On 07/07/15 01:27, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: |
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> > On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 13:04:35 -0400 |
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> > Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote: |
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> >> I would love my commits to be reviewed, but I usually don't feel |
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> >> like reviewing anyone else's. That's... not uncommon. |
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> > |
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> > Well, you could at least get your commits reviewed by an automated |
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> > build system that starts from a clean stage each time. That's |
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> > better than nothing. |
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> > |
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> I'll laugh about it next time I update OpenFOAM: |
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> Fri Jun 27 12:52:19 2014 >>> sci-libs/openfoam-2.3.0 |
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> merge time: 1 hour, 5 minutes and 8 seconds. |
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> or |
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> |
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> Sun Jun 29 20:36:09 2014 >>> sci-mathematics/nusmv-2.5.4 |
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> merge time: 2 hours, 58 minutes. |
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What's the problem? Better the build bot wastes that time once than a |
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whole bunch of users do. |
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> That's without dependencies, so from a clean minimal starting point |
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> (once you figure out what useflags are needed) you're looking at 12+ |
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> hours of walltime to get that checked. (On a reasonably modern Xeon |
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> with SSDs ...) |
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Uh, no, because you use binary packages for the dependencies, and you |
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use a package mangler that can figure out the use flags for you. |
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> So thanks for your intentional comedy, but let's be serious here. |
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Exherbo's been doing all this for years, and it works rather well. The |
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only comedy is that Gentoo doesn't even realise this is trivial to do |
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nowadays. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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