Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: The Age of the Universe

[Jakub Moc <jakub@gentoo.org>]

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Edgar Hucek wrote:
> Danny van Dyk schrieb:
>> This hasn't yet investigated allt he possible combinations of packages 
>> depending on dev-lang/php, or the ~10,000 other packages in the tree.
>>
>> Danny
> 
> Just a side hint. Try to enable all flags at the first cimpile time would
> reduce trys drasticaly ;)

Yes, it would indeed drastically reduce the time to almost zero due to
use flag collisions... :)

> So you say a developer cant't test all useflags? That is a strange
> message from you. 

No, even PHP devs can't test them all, and definitely not all their
combinations (simple maths, see previous mail). Not to mention that some
of the flags require commercial software installed that's not in
portage, so they are actually unsupported.


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