Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: Revisions for USE flag changes

[Rich Freeman <rich0@gentoo.org>]

On Sat, Aug 12, 2017 at 12:22 AM, Michael Palimaka
<kensington@gentoo.org> wrote:
> On 08/12/2017 09:50 AM, Michael Orlitzky wrote:
>> Q. But what about the rebuilds?
>>
>>   For most packages, the rebuilds simply don't matter. Unless you're
>>   the maintainer of libreoffice, firefox, chromium, etc. -- just do the
>>   revision and forget about the (quick) rebuilds.
>
> I really wish people would stop trotting out this false argument. Not
> everyone has the latest and greatest hardware. Rebuilds have a real cost
> to end users and as such we should use them wisely.
>

Agree, but maintainers would have the option to just not change IUSE
at all until the next time they would revbump anyway.  That saves
rebuilds for those using --changed-use today.

I'm not convinced that it is actually that easy for people to avoid
--changed-use, and if they are using it then they're going to
potentially get exposed to these rebuilds when IUSE changes.

-- 
Rich