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On 19/08/2013 10:10, Wang Xuerui wrote: |
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> 2013/8/19 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>: |
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>> NOT upgrading icu on a whim also comes with massive user benefits: |
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>> such as, for example, NOT having to rebuild every damn huge piece of |
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>> software on the box every other week just coz icu decided to change how |
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>> something is done and shove it into a point release. Again. |
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>> </rant over> |
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> Sure... |
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> And if you choose to not rebuild things you end up putting a whole lot |
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> of packages into @preserved-rebuild, which shows up *every* time |
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> emerge completes. Well, I basically get over this by simply ignoring |
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> them, but the length of @preserved-rebuild output usually forces me |
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> into emerging it every 2 weeks or so. |
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> And just consider how much CPU cycles are lost in frequent qtwebkit, |
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> webkit-gtk and chromium rebuilds... |
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webkit* updates have slowed down recently so I'm not too bothered about |
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that. But chromium, that thing drive me to tears, now I just use |
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google-chrome. |
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I don't always need the latest icu - 7-bit ASCII satisfies all my daily |
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needs :-) So I can afford to mask anything after the current version and |
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just leave it as-is until it suits me to rebuild things. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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