* [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps
@ 2014-07-26 14:25 99% ` Martin Vaeth
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From: Martin Vaeth @ 2014-07-26 14:25 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-dev
Tom Wijsman <TomWij@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Michael Palimaka <kensington@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
>> What a great way to kill the distro.
>>
>> I can already heat my house with the number of unnecessary rebuilds
>
> Do you upgrade @world every hour and thus have it cause excessive heat?
>
> If I upgrade every X weeks they become much more cool and necessary...
One of the main advantages of gentoo is the flowing upgrade,
especially since this can only be very poorly emulated by
a binary distro.
If you really suggest that the user waits one month and
then recompiles the whole installation, you give up
this advantage of gentoo: The user is not up-to-date
for a long time, and moreover, then needs practically
a full reinstall; both are things which he wants to avoid
and why perhaps he has chosen gentoo in the first place.
At least, for me it is the case: if I have to reinstall
all packages every months - and even have delay in security
updates for a month - I will certainly switch the
distribution. I guess many others think similarly.
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