On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 17:30:29 +0100
Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> On wto, 2017-03-21 at 17:05 +0100, Alexis Ballier wrote:
> > On Tue, 21 Mar 2017 16:46:43 +0100
> > Michał Górny <mgo...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> >   
> > > Use --cache-file to reuse the previous check results in the
> > > subsequent configure script runs. This gives a major speed
> > > advantage (beating the previous parallel runs) and significant
> > > CPU savings.  
> > 
> > Just in case (didn't try nor do I know the reasons of this), but I
> > think this change deserves a round in ~arch:
> > https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=162875  
> 
> confcache is a completely different business. The problem with
> confcache is that it uses persistent, global cache for lots of
> packages, which can easily get stale or provide corrupted data. Using
> local cache is usually safe (except for very broken packages).


yes you're right, but that still doesn't justify pushing straight to
stable for a package in @system
(the same applies to the other patches)

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