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Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Subslots: should they be bumped like SONAME or on
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Ciaran McCreesh:
> On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 16:16:20 +0000
> hasufell <hasufell@gentoo.org> wrote:
>> Ciaran McCreesh:
>>> On Sat, 14 Jun 2014 15:32:56 +0000
>>> hasufell <hasufell@gentoo.org> wrote:
>>>> Ciaran McCreesh:
>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> 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.
> 

If the change to VDB is useless, then the rebuild is useless.