Michael Orlitzky posted on Tue, 15 Aug 2017 23:22:54 -0400 as excerpted: > On 08/14/2017 08:01 AM, Jason Zaman wrote: >> >> I'll give an example where revbumps are significantly inferior to >> --changed-use. >> >> ... With --changed-use, only the people who need it (ie selinux users) >> will rebuild and everyone is happy (selinux users because the program >> now works and non-selinux users because they did not rebuild for no >> reason). > > But this benefit exists only for Portage users, and can only be obtained > by throwing the others under the bus.
But even if that's the case (I wouldn't know), it's the case due to a deliberate decision of those going "under the bus", because portage is the default, and by choosing to use some other PM, they've deliberately chosen its (non-PMS) features over those of portage. Just as I, by choosing --newuse instead, have chosen to do rebuilds in such cases, even with portage. (Tho TBH I've never noticed that particular case, probably because it's lost in the noise compared to --changed-deps (enabled when static-deps were newer and I wanted to be sure, likely unneeded these days) and smart- live-rebuild of my (live) kde packages.) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman
