On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 12:20 PM, Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Mike,
>
> I would really appreciate if you cared to follow procedures for eclass
> changes. Most notably, if you at least bothered to either ping us *or*
> sent the patch to the mailing list beforehand.
>
> This eclass is used by almost 6700 ebuilds. I am trying *hard* to commit
> changes in large patchsets to reduce cache updates. Of course it is all
> pointless if a random Mike Frysinger, developer on special rights, goes
> ahead and commits whatever he wants to whatever eclasses he wants to
> commit to, whatever time he pleases.
>
> Normally, I would revert it but I don't feel like causing third huge
> cache update today.
>

Just out of curiosity, and for the curious:

1.  How often do cache updates happen?
2.  How long do they take?
3.  Is there any downside to only having one such update running at a time
and just skipping them if there's already an update pending?

>
> --
> Best regards,
> Michał Górny
>

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