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From: Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge"
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2022 17:57:59
Message-Id: dbd5a935e505e3ff77d9a6f1a1dda71bf445ed8e.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge" by Dr Rainer Woitok
1 On Tue, 2022-02-22 at 16:42 +0100, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
2 >
3 > So for people like me, neither being a developer nor managing a local
4 > server for binary packages (thanks Andreas for pointing out this special
5 > case), "--changed-deps" really is an option not to be used.
6 >
7 > Case finally closed :-)
8 >
9
10 If only. You need to use it whenever a developer makes an important
11 dependency change inside an ebuild or eclass without updating the
12 revision number (e.g. -r1).
13
14 But --changed-use slows things down a lot, so you also don't want to
15 use it *every* time.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge" Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>