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On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 11:10:13 +0200, n952162 wrote: |
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> > Yes, I know, there are binary versions, but if I wanted to use binary, |
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> > I wouldn't use gentoo. And anyway, there's always rust and gcc and |
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> Okay, I guess I got it, at least for the worst offenders, firefox and |
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> thunderbird: not have them in my world file and every quarter update |
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> them manually. Would that work? |
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Not really, because you wouldn't get security updates. Also, because they |
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aren't in your world set, depclean would try to remove them and their |
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dependencies. |
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A somewhat less clunky, but still far from perfect, option would be to |
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use package.mask to block updates beyond the current version. |
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Using stable rather than testing, I don't know which you are currently |
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using, would reduce the number of updates significantly. This laptop runs |
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testing, but I have Chromium set to use stable to avoid the situation of |
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a rebuild completing just in time to start the next one :( |
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You could also look at using distcc if you have more than one machine to |
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spread the load. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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There are only 10 types of people in the world: |
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those who understand binary and those who don't. |
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