On Sat, 2014-06-14 at 16:13 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 16:41:51 +0200 > Michał Górny wrote: > > However, this means that we force much more rebuilds than necessary. > > This shouldn't be considered to be a problem. This would be suicide for Gentoo as a distro. Organizations that have a dedicated build server and a standardized /etc/portage config tree pushed to all user machines could rebuild half of @world once a week. Individual users running Gentoo on a single workstation or server can't and won't.