On 19/08/2013 10:10, Wang Xuerui wrote: > 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... >
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.mckin...@gmail.com
