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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
To: gentoo-portage-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] A way for trying to prevent useless rebuilds
Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:14:29
Message-Id: 1374779658.4925.17.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] A way for trying to prevent useless rebuilds by Zac Medico
1 El jue, 25-07-2013 a las 12:00 -0700, Zac Medico escribió:
2 > On 07/25/2013 11:54 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
3 > > This question comes to my mind every time a developer decides to
4 > > drop/add a USE flag to ebuilds like gcc/webkit-gtk/libreoffice...
5 > >
6 > > I think that we should have a file (like used for category movements) to
7 > > let PM know how to handle this situation.
8 > >
9 > > For example,
10 > > category/foo-1.0 has a "gnome" USE flag but, later, that one is dropped:
11 > > -> If it is now *enabling* that support always, our file could have
12 > > something like:
13 > > category/foo gnome + -> that would mean that, when "gnome" USE flag is
14 > > NOT found, portage assumes it as being enabled, that will mean that
15 > > people having previously "gnome" enabled wouldn't need to rebuild the
16 > > package
17 > >
18 > > ... and the opposite
19 > >
20 > > What do you think?
21 >
22 > We could do something like that. You should propose it in the gentoo-pms
23 > list.
24
25 OK, wanted to be sure a similar idea wasn't rejected before :)

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