On Sat, 26 Sep 2015 15:51:07 +0200, lee wrote: > + need to rebuild (large) packages (like libreoffice) which I expect to > be upgraded and thus get rebuilt later anyway (to keep the package > management happy because it cannot figure this out for us and give us > a choice to upgrade these (large) packages as well while we are at > it),
They need to be rebuilt because a package they used has updated with a changed API, poppler is the usual culprit here. It's an issue with all distros, but for the binary one it's only an issue for the devs, they build a set of packages that work together and you get to install them. If a poppler update requires a new libreoffice package, the usual choice is to skip the new poppler until a new LO is released. > + have to do other things to keep the system up to date we somehow don't > know about, like 'emerge -a --changed-deps=y @world' (because the > package management doesn't really know how to update the whole system > to begin with (because it's so complicated))? It's not that it is complicated but time-consuming. Options like --changed-deps and --with-bdeps upgrade packages that don't really need it, so why enable them by default. They not only increase the time needed to compile everything but slow down portage's dependency resolution. -- Neil Bothwick Favorite Windoze game: Guess what this icon does?
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