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 E81E6138247 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2013 12:31:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 48E2CE0ABA; Sat, 2 Nov 2013 12:31:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net (mail-1.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.69]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4BDE3E0A53 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2013 12:31:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF8462EAD02 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2013 08:31:11 -0400 (EDT) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net ([208.85.220.69]) by localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id RhF2e6zagn11 for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2013 08:31:07 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ca.inter.net (unknown [98.143.99.33]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 7100F2EA58D for ; Sat, 2 Nov 2013 08:31:05 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 02 Nov 2013 08:31:05 -0400 Date: Sat, 2 Nov 2013 08:31:05 -0400 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] do subslots improve user-experience? Message-ID: <20131102123105.GA876@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <5274EA64.6000404@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5274EA64.6000404@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: 2dee7432-d573-47f3-8873-5d97d4d0f60c X-Archives-Hash: 41b6527f8be72008e4a5c4438d000d57 131102 hasufell had some more questions for users : > * how often do you experience useless rebuilds? Not recently : it used to happen more often. > * do you really have a problem with running > revdep-rebuild/haskell-updater/perl-cleaner etc after every emerge? No. > * do you think it's worth the effort to add more stuff to the PM, > so that you don't have to run revdep-rebuild that often? No, as I don't need R-R anymore. > * do you trust the other methods like subslots or preserved-rebuild > to work reliably? -- do you still use revdep-rebuild? P-R seems to work adequately. My big gripe is unnecessary dependencies, eg sound for KDE & FF. It's part of the lowest-common-denominator approach which seems to characterise Gnome, Ubuntu & M$ , but Gentoo should avoid. That said, I'm generally very satisfied with Gentoo : it's just over 10 years since I first started using it. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca