Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge"
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 15:05:21
Message-Id: b5100e8cc747583e0cf2d797bafa795c8cedd884.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge" by Neil Bothwick
1 On Tue, 2022-02-22 at 14:26 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 >
3 > It's not a relic, it's a fairly recent addition. It's a bit of a belt and
4 > braces approach which basically says "rebuild everything that might just
5 > possibly, maybe, in some circumstances have some sort of effect".
6 >
7 >
8
9 It's really a (portage-only) workaround for developers who don't follow
10 the rules, thus ensuring that we'll never have another competing
11 package manager again.