On Mon, 7 Jun 2021 11:10:13 +0200, n952162 wrote: > > Yes, I know, there are binary versions, but if I wanted to use binary, > > I wouldn't use gentoo. And anyway, there's always rust and gcc and > > ... > > > > > > Okay, I guess I got it, at least for the worst offenders, firefox and > thunderbird: not have them in my world file and every quarter update > them manually. Would that work?
Not really, because you wouldn't get security updates. Also, because they aren't in your world set, depclean would try to remove them and their dependencies. A somewhat less clunky, but still far from perfect, option would be to use package.mask to block updates beyond the current version. Using stable rather than testing, I don't know which you are currently using, would reduce the number of updates significantly. This laptop runs testing, but I have Chromium set to use stable to avoid the situation of a rebuild completing just in time to start the next one :( You could also look at using distcc if you have more than one machine to spread the load. -- Neil Bothwick There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't.
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