From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 4208 invoked by uid 1002); 22 Sep 2003 12:26:02 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 29312 invoked from network); 22 Sep 2003 12:26:01 -0000 Message-ID: <3F6EEA59.7060705@codewordt.co.uk> Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 13:26:01 +0100 From: Dhruba Bandopadhyay Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5b) Gecko/20030916 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org References: <3F6ECE39.7000003@codewordt.co.uk> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Omitting binary packages (emerge -e world) X-Archives-Salt: 54abf549-aee5-4251-bf12-365462c9123c X-Archives-Hash: 83e5be9e3d0ab50ce145a2f422f2af74 A. Craig West wrote: > On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Dhruba Bandopadhyay wrote: > > >>AFAIK this has not been done yet so I thought I would ask about it. >>Usually, during emerge -e world all packages are recompiled including >>binary packages which require no compilation. However, it would be nice >>if all binary packages were omitted from emerge -e world so only those >>from source are included. That way, time and resources are saved and only >>those packages affected by new compiler or compiler settings are >>recompiled. How about it? > > > On the other hand, when the last time I had to emerge -e world, it was because > I was recovering from severe disk corruption, and I wanted ALL packages > to be redone. The binary packages don't really take long anyways, because they > don't really compile. > Hmm. That's a good point and a good reason to include bins. Well, injected packages should be omitted anyway. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list