On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 6:06 AM Florian Schmaus wrote:
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> This is a first suggestion in an effort to reach a compromise that
> allows EGO_SUM to be un-depracted.
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> I have decided to check the size of A, instead of counting the entries
> in EGO_SUM, because that seemed more sensible given that as A's size
> caused functional issues in the past (bug #719202 [1]).
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> 1: https://bugs.gentoo.org/719202
I would suggest we simply add a comment to warn ebuild developers that
some unknown large number of modules may cause build failures. If/when
the ebuild starts to fail, they will know they went over the limit and
will have to start collapsing files into tarballs.
