From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 15513 invoked by uid 1002); 22 Sep 2003 12:07:18 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 2057 invoked from network); 22 Sep 2003 12:07:18 -0000 Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2003 08:07:16 -0400 (EDT) From: "A. Craig West" X-X-Sender: acwest@gizmo.bdkw To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <3F6ECE39.7000003@codewordt.co.uk> Message-ID: References: <3F6ECE39.7000003@codewordt.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Omitting binary packages (emerge -e world) X-Archives-Salt: 3498ebfb-490e-4cab-b973-f5b9fe88e67d X-Archives-Hash: f781b831e263216330ced9a92e5d1804 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. -- Craig West Ph: (416) 666-1645 | It's not a bug, acwest-sig@craigwest.net | It's a feature... -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list