From: "A. Craig West" <acwest-gentoo-dev@craigwest.net>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Omitting binary packages (emerge -e world)
Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 08:07:16 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0309220803460.3888@gizmo.bdkw> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3F6ECE39.7000003@codewordt.co.uk>
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.
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2003-09-22 10:26 [gentoo-dev] Omitting binary packages (emerge -e world) Dhruba Bandopadhyay
2003-09-22 12:07 ` A. Craig West [this message]
2003-09-22 12:26 ` Dhruba Bandopadhyay
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