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On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 19:46:54 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> >>> The news item also showed how to make it a global choice, avoiding |
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> >>> the need to multiple per-package directories. |
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> >> I'm not sure that's a solution to the problem at all (which is why I |
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> >> didn't do it on my machines either). |
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> If the problem is that you don't want things to be inconsistent, then |
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> it _does_ solve the problem. |
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> >> Apart from always wasting much more work & resources than necessary |
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> >> for no good reason |
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> The reason is that somebody wanted their system to be "consistent." I |
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> don't think that's a particulary good reason, but that's the nice |
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> thing aboug Gentoo. Everybody gets to decide what is important to |
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> them, and build their system accordingly. |
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It's also practical as it requires no other changes to get your system |
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working. However, it is even less efficient than I had envisaged. |
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ABI_X86="64 32" emerge --update --deep --changed-use --with-bdeps y |
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-pv @world |
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gives |
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Total: 237 packages (237 reinstalls), |
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Whereas: |
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grep -cv '^#' /etc/portage/package.use/abi_x86_32 |
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gives 119 packages. |
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So setting it globally would require three times as many packages to be |
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rebuilt on this KDE system. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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You are a completely unique individual, just like everybody else. |
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