On Tue, 6 Aug 2013 16:39:14 -0400 Alexis Ballier <aball...@gentoo.org> wrote: > This is not a regression from my definition: > > Software regression, the appearance of a bug which was absent in a > previous revision
A bug in this case is one of the user's packages no longer working after an upgrade, or any of the more subtle weird breakages that can be caused by preserve-libs. The user possibly having to do an extra rebuild which is not strictly necessary isn't a bug. Nothing breaks. It's just a bit more time spent compiling something every now and again, and this is a cost paid every time a package has a revision bump or version bump with only minor changes that could be handled with a partial rebuild, if only anyone cared enough to support that. Sure, in an ideal world it would be avoidable, but avoiding it shouldn't be high on the list of anyone's priorities. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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