On 6/7/21 11:16 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 11:10:13 +0200, n952162 wrote:
Yes, I know, there are binary versions, but if I wanted to use binary,
I wouldn't use gentoo. And anyway, there's always rust and gcc and
...
Okay, I guess I got it, at least for the worst offenders, firefox and
thunderbird: not have them in my world file and every quarter update
them manually. Would that work?
Not really, because you wouldn't get security updates. Also, because they
aren't in your world set, depclean would try to remove them and their
dependencies.
A somewhat less clunky, but still far from perfect, option would be to
use package.mask to block updates beyond the current version.
Hmmm. That's interesting ...
Using stable rather than testing, I don't know which you are currently
using, would reduce the number of updates significantly. This laptop runs
testing, but I have Chromium set to use stable to avoid the situation of
a rebuild completing just in time to start the next one :(
:-))) That's exactly what I have (almost) with stable.
You could also look at using distcc if you have more than one machine to
spread the load.
Ah, that's also interesting ... that's like an alternative to a local
binary server (which I'm currently doing) - the compilations are
distributed on all nodes in the network - and then, presumably are also
available to all nodes? ...
