> Secondly, today's sync fetched thirty thousand files, nearly all in > metadata, yet nothing needed upgrading. Is this caused by careless editing? > I've noticed before that sed /g alters the time stamp of all files it looks > in, regardless of whether it changes anything.
Most likely an eclass used by many packages was changed. That leads to metadata regeneration for all these packages. This is a good candidate: 14 Jan 2015; Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> eutils.eclass: prune_libtool_files: properly reset variables for following loop iterations. -- Andreas K. Huettel Gentoo Linux developer kde, council
