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From: Michael Palimaka <kensington@gentoo.org>
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: don't rely on dynamic deps
Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 03:12:07 +1000
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On 07/26/2014 07:59 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2014 22:14:41 +1000
> Michael Palimaka <kensington@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
>> On 07/23/2014 09:36 AM, Tom Wijsman wrote:
>>> On Tue, 22 Jul 2014 18:21:00 +1000
>>> 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...
>>>
>>
>> Shouldn't we strive to avoid the unnecessary rebuilds in the first
>> place? Doing updates on your schedule only avoids the symptom, not the
>> problem.
>
> We should strive to do both; cause less rebuilds, update less often.
>
> It is comparable to flooding on IRC channels; if you send much more
> messages, you are much more likely to experience a kick and/or a ban.
>
> It is easier not to flood than to convince people there is no problem
> with you flooding the channel; out of all the IRC channels I know of,
> I've only come across one where they don't mind pasted long code blocks
> but that's mostly because of the lack of active moderation and people.
>
> (With "flooding" as "updating" and "kick/ban" as "rebuilds")
>
Each person should update at a frequency that suits them. Recommending
to update every $period is not a valid solution to unnecessary rebuilds.