On Tue, 07 Jul 2015 08:04:47 +0800 Patrick Lauer <patr...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 07/07/15 01:27, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: > > On Mon, 06 Jul 2015 13:04:35 -0400 > > Michael Orlitzky <m...@gentoo.org> wrote: > >> I would love my commits to be reviewed, but I usually don't feel > >> like reviewing anyone else's. That's... not uncommon. > > > > Well, you could at least get your commits reviewed by an automated > > build system that starts from a clean stage each time. That's > > better than nothing. > > > I'll laugh about it next time I update OpenFOAM: > > Fri Jun 27 12:52:19 2014 >>> sci-libs/openfoam-2.3.0 > merge time: 1 hour, 5 minutes and 8 seconds. > or > > Sun Jun 29 20:36:09 2014 >>> sci-mathematics/nusmv-2.5.4 > merge time: 2 hours, 58 minutes.
What's the problem? Better the build bot wastes that time once than a whole bunch of users do. > That's without dependencies, so from a clean minimal starting point > (once you figure out what useflags are needed) you're looking at 12+ > hours of walltime to get that checked. (On a reasonably modern Xeon > with SSDs ...) Uh, no, because you use binary packages for the dependencies, and you use a package mangler that can figure out the use flags for you. > So thanks for your intentional comedy, but let's be serious here. Exherbo's been doing all this for years, and it works rather well. The only comedy is that Gentoo doesn't even realise this is trivial to do nowadays. -- Ciaran McCreesh
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