Re: [gentoo-user] do subslots improve user-experience?

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 13:04:52 +0100, hasufell wrote:

> * how often do you experience useless rebuilds?

That's an unreasonable question. How do we know whether a rebuild was
useless or not unless we skip it and then find that a single feature of a
complex program no longer works properly, and to do that we have to block
the update from emerge world.

Yes, there are a lot more updates and rebuilds, but are these useless? I
have no facts to device either way.

> * do you really have a problem with running
> revdep-rebuild/haskell-updater/perl-cleaner etc after every emerge?

No. The only problem with those approaches is knowing when they need to be
run. That's what I like about the preserved-rebuild approach, it tells
you that rebuilds need to be done but lets the user device when to do
them.

> * 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?

If it's done in a way that is understandable to users. Gentoo users like,
even need, to understand what is going on. Sub-slots don't achieve that.

> * do you trust the other methods like subslots or preserved-rebuild to
> work reliably? (as in: do you still use revdep-rebuild?)

I trust preserved-rebuild. I have a weekly cron script that checks
various aspects of my system, including a revdep-rebuild -p. That part
almost never finds anything these days.

Sub-slots appear to work, but they are opaque and intrusive.
@preserved-rebuild requires a tiny amount more effort from the user, but
gives more control and seems more Gentoo-ish to me.


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Neil Bothwick

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