2013/8/19 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com>: > 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. > > </rant over>
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...
