-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sun, 08 Feb 2009 15:27:54 -0800 > Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> wrote: >>> Which is offset and more by the massive inconvenience of having to >>> keep track of and store junk under version control. >> I think you're making it out to be worse than it really is. Like I >> said, I think we have a justifiable exception to the rule. > > If you start encouraging this approach, are you prepared to make > Portage warn extremely noisily if a repository-provided (as opposed to > user generated) cache entry is found to be stale?
Sure. Otherwise, it's confusing for the user when dependency calculations take longer than usual for no apparent reason. - -- Thanks, Zac -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmPbV8ACgkQ/ejvha5XGaN24ACg9LFy8dag9/riCwODjknQV/Ic 0koAn00PP5WJBo5UwMR6iATwfFOipTi6 =sOk8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
