From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E29B41381F3 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:16:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DD4AAE09F7; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:16:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 56B57E09A2 for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:16:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.26.5] (ip98-164-195-43.oc.oc.cox.net [98.164.195.43]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: zmedico) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 84E2A33E72B for ; Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:16:18 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <51F17981.2010400@gentoo.org> Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 12:16:17 -0700 From: Zac Medico User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686 on x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130620 Thunderbird/17.0.7 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-portage-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-portage-dev] A way for trying to prevent useless rebuilds References: <1374778444.4925.7.camel@localhost> <51F175BD.90601@gentoo.org> <1374779658.4925.17.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1374779658.4925.17.camel@localhost> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.5.2 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Archives-Salt: 29649f99-1aa2-496a-a7cd-86474725722d X-Archives-Hash: c5c3965004eae60bd8c272b647853dce On 07/25/2013 12:14 PM, Pacho Ramos wrote: > El jue, 25-07-2013 a las 12:00 -0700, Zac Medico escribió: >> On 07/25/2013 11:54 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote: >>> This question comes to my mind every time a developer decides to >>> drop/add a USE flag to ebuilds like gcc/webkit-gtk/libreoffice... >>> >>> I think that we should have a file (like used for category movements) to >>> let PM know how to handle this situation. >>> >>> For example, >>> category/foo-1.0 has a "gnome" USE flag but, later, that one is dropped: >>> -> If it is now *enabling* that support always, our file could have >>> something like: >>> category/foo gnome + -> that would mean that, when "gnome" USE flag is >>> NOT found, portage assumes it as being enabled, that will mean that >>> people having previously "gnome" enabled wouldn't need to rebuild the >>> package >>> >>> ... and the opposite >>> >>> What do you think? >> >> We could do something like that. You should propose it in the gentoo-pms >> list. > > OK, wanted to be sure a similar idea wasn't rejected before :) I recall Brian Harring proposing something like that in the past, but it never materialized. -- Thanks, Zac