Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] A way for trying to prevent useless rebuilds

[Zac Medico]

On 07/25/2013 12:14 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> El jue, 25-07-2013 a las 12:00 -0700, Zac Medico escribió:
>> On 07/25/2013 11:54 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
>>> This question comes to my mind every time a developer decides to
>>> drop/add a USE flag to ebuilds like gcc/webkit-gtk/libreoffice...
>>>
>>> I think that we should have a file (like used for category movements) to
>>> let PM know how to handle this situation.
>>>
>>> For example,
>>> category/foo-1.0 has a "gnome" USE flag but, later, that one is dropped:
>>> -> If it is now *enabling* that support always, our file could have
>>> something like:
>>> category/foo gnome + -> that would mean that, when "gnome" USE flag is
>>> NOT found, portage assumes it as being enabled, that will mean that
>>> people having previously "gnome" enabled wouldn't need to rebuild the
>>> package
>>>
>>> ... and the opposite
>>>
>>> What do you think?
>>
>> We could do something like that. You should propose it in the gentoo-pms
>> list.
>
> OK, wanted to be sure a similar idea wasn't rejected before :)

I recall Brian Harring proposing something like that in the past, but it
never materialized.
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Thanks,
Zac