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On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: |
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> AFAIK this has not been done yet so I thought I would ask about it. |
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> Usually, during emerge -e world all packages are recompiled including |
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> binary packages which require no compilation. However, it would be nice |
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> if all binary packages were omitted from emerge -e world so only those |
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> from source are included. That way, time and resources are saved and only |
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> those packages affected by new compiler or compiler settings are |
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> recompiled. How about it? |
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On the other hand, when the last time I had to emerge -e world, it was because |
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I was recovering from severe disk corruption, and I wanted ALL packages |
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to be redone. The binary packages don't really take long anyways, because they |
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don't really compile. |
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Craig West Ph: (416) 666-1645 | It's not a bug, |
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acwest-sig@×××××××××.net | It's a feature... |
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