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 AE8471381F3 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 09:17:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4F60FE0D4C; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 09:17:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-bk0-f49.google.com (mail-bk0-f49.google.com [209.85.214.49]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 26E83E0D29 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 09:16:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-bk0-f49.google.com with SMTP id r7so1289770bkg.36 for ; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 02:16:58 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=hczaWkfgiuEt74owSpmQ/LsAAhWu2afHl9/3+1gEKU4=; b=ma4TruAQENy3vh+FzpPufQXisSyuBby3S0/mnlDtNCxJSgKBX40LbBuOJzoA4fe5L1 FllC+UOxsgWv9eMBdQMohXP5oxNISMk3011g7YZncX7AVYK07y+IjNikUJif10xrKI7M 5VcCleWmrRvGD81ReNU5H+kaEV0cNJprX1CH+fVsMnb/fL62AUNbEV1GMHKonVF7rQ7y /bA47zV3ECEU57I6m5hxczGy/QRAS9WOpCDht19xwXF4iTqdCC6BEP0/a3RTdlkU6qMi IMm8NUAuV0QMvYn7eIJb2PtyF/auWVz+n2jHb5PeJo3tJGx1wOl3rqiHpAOtJjFK9TGq 23oA== X-Received: by 10.205.20.133 with SMTP id qo5mr7215965bkb.6.1376903818516; Mon, 19 Aug 2013 02:16:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.1.20.201] (dustpuppy.is.co.za. [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id if11sm1470116bkc.15.1969.12.31.16.00.00 (version=TLSv1 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Mon, 19 Aug 2013 02:16:58 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <5211E1C7.7060405@gmail.com> Date: Mon, 19 Aug 2013 11:13:43 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130809 Thunderbird/17.0.8 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] libreoffice cannot use oxygen theme References: <5210E62B.8040709@gmail.com> <5211BDCF.9090302@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 83ef84d3-331b-47be-a418-d08ef647a84a X-Archives-Hash: aaf9efa60ffe3a510696012fd8bf2f24 On 19/08/2013 10:10, Wang Xuerui wrote: > 2013/8/19 Alan McKinnon : >> NOT upgrading icu on a whim also comes with massive user benefits: >> >> such as, for example, NOT having to rebuild every damn huge piece of >> software on the box every other week just coz icu decided to change how >> something is done and shove it into a point release. Again. >> >> > > Sure... > > And if you choose to not rebuild things you end up putting a whole lot > of packages into @preserved-rebuild, which shows up *every* time > emerge completes. Well, I basically get over this by simply ignoring > them, but the length of @preserved-rebuild output usually forces me > into emerging it every 2 weeks or so. > > And just consider how much CPU cycles are lost in frequent qtwebkit, > webkit-gtk and chromium rebuilds... > webkit* updates have slowed down recently so I'm not too bothered about that. But chromium, that thing drive me to tears, now I just use google-chrome. I don't always need the latest icu - 7-bit ASCII satisfies all my daily needs :-) So I can afford to mask anything after the current version and just leave it as-is until it suits me to rebuild things. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckinnon@gmail.com