On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 16:16:20 +0000 hasufell wrote: > Ciaran McCreesh: > > On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 15:32:56 +0000 > > hasufell wrote: > >> Ciaran McCreesh: > >>> 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. > >> > >> Why not? > > > > If "not having to do lots of compiling" is your goal, you're using > > the wrong distribution. > > > > I cannot see an argument against avoiding useless rebuilds here. They're not useless: they result in a change to VDB. That's all that matters, as can be seen by Gentoo not supporting partial rebuilds for revbumps where only a small text file is changed. -- Ciaran McCreesh