On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 13:04:52 +0100, hasufell wrote: > * how often do you experience useless rebuilds?
That's an unreasonable question. How do we know whether a rebuild was useless or not unless we skip it and then find that a single feature of a complex program no longer works properly, and to do that we have to block the update from emerge world. Yes, there are a lot more updates and rebuilds, but are these useless? I have no facts to device either way. > * do you really have a problem with running > revdep-rebuild/haskell-updater/perl-cleaner etc after every emerge? No. The only problem with those approaches is knowing when they need to be run. That's what I like about the preserved-rebuild approach, it tells you that rebuilds need to be done but lets the user device when to do them. > * do you think it's worth the effort to add more stuff > to the PM, so that you don't have to run revdep-rebuild that often? If it's done in a way that is understandable to users. Gentoo users like, even need, to understand what is going on. Sub-slots don't achieve that. > * do you trust the other methods like subslots or preserved-rebuild to > work reliably? (as in: do you still use revdep-rebuild?) I trust preserved-rebuild. I have a weekly cron script that checks various aspects of my system, including a revdep-rebuild -p. That part almost never finds anything these days. Sub-slots appear to work, but they are opaque and intrusive. @preserved-rebuild requires a tiny amount more effort from the user, but gives more control and seems more Gentoo-ish to me. -- Neil Bothwick Q: Why is top-posting evil? A: backwards read don't humans because
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