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On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 13:04:52 +0100, hasufell wrote: |
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> * how often do you experience useless rebuilds? |
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That's an unreasonable question. How do we know whether a rebuild was |
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useless or not unless we skip it and then find that a single feature of a |
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complex program no longer works properly, and to do that we have to block |
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the update from emerge world. |
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Yes, there are a lot more updates and rebuilds, but are these useless? I |
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have no facts to device either way. |
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> * do you really have a problem with running |
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> revdep-rebuild/haskell-updater/perl-cleaner etc after every emerge? |
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No. The only problem with those approaches is knowing when they need to be |
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run. That's what I like about the preserved-rebuild approach, it tells |
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you that rebuilds need to be done but lets the user device when to do |
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them. |
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> * do you think it's worth the effort to add more stuff |
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> to the PM, so that you don't have to run revdep-rebuild that often? |
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If it's done in a way that is understandable to users. Gentoo users like, |
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even need, to understand what is going on. Sub-slots don't achieve that. |
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> * do you trust the other methods like subslots or preserved-rebuild to |
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> work reliably? (as in: do you still use revdep-rebuild?) |
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I trust preserved-rebuild. I have a weekly cron script that checks |
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various aspects of my system, including a revdep-rebuild -p. That part |
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almost never finds anything these days. |
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Sub-slots appear to work, but they are opaque and intrusive. |
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@preserved-rebuild requires a tiny amount more effort from the user, but |
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gives more control and seems more Gentoo-ish to me. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Q: Why is top-posting evil? |
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A: backwards read don't humans because |
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