On Wed, 2006-08-23 at 12:40 -0700, Richard Fish wrote: > On 8/23/06, Alan Mckinnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can you be absolutely certain I'm wrong? Can you absolutely guarantee > > that a recompile with a different config MUST be treated differently to > > an upgrade? > > We are still talking about CFLAGS here, right? Then ok, no, it is not > _necessary_ to treat this differently than an upgrade in gcc versions. > One can happily run "emerge -e system; emerge -e world" and get to > the same result. But that doesn't change the fact that the emerge -e > system step is redundant _in this case_.
I'd like to suggest at this point that we drop this thread. Because you and I both understand the compile process well, but we seemed to have gotten the wires crossed a few posts back and are talking about slightly different scenarios. You are right in saying that in this case, emerge -e system is redundant, but your average gentoo-newbie is in no state to understand why, or even care :-) Besides, I really need to get going on figuring out why Sybase ASE won't install here and play nicely with php5.... alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
