On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 11:50:29 -0400
Alexandre Rostovtsev <tetromino@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On Sat, 2014-06-14 at 16:13 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
> > On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 16:41:51 +0200
> > Michał Górny <mgorny@gentoo.org> 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.

Then either Gentoo should ship binary packages, or the user should find
another distribution.

Gentoo *already* does a full rebuild for packages whose bumps or
revbumps just result in one text file changing. So long as there isn't
a mechanism and full ebuild support in place to prevent this, it's a
silly argument.

-- 
Ciaran McCreesh