On 2015-03-30, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: > On Mon, 30 Mar 2015 19:46:54 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards wrote: > >> The reason is that somebody wanted their system to be "consistent." I >> don't think that's a particulary good reason, but that's the nice >> thing aboug Gentoo. Everybody gets to decide what is important to >> them, and build their system accordingly. > > It's also practical as it requires no other changes to get your system > working. However, it is even less efficient than I had envisaged. > > ABI_X86="64 32" emerge --update --deep --changed-use --with-bdeps y > -pv @world > > gives > > Total: 237 packages (237 reinstalls), > > Whereas: > > grep -cv '^#' /etc/portage/package.use/abi_x86_32 > > gives 119 packages. > > So setting it globally would require three times as many packages to be > rebuilt on this KDE system.
That's roughly what I came up with this morning when I decided to try installing acroread on one of my XFCE boxes: 81 rebuilds one way, a handful over 200 the other. And I think it's at least the third time in the past few months I've looked up llvm to see what it is and why it's getting built -- I keep getting it confused with lvm. -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Jesuit priests are at DATING CAREER DIPLOMATS!! gmail.com