On Tue, Oct 11, 2022 at 6:06 AM Florian Schmaus <f...@gentoo.org> wrote: > > > This is a first suggestion in an effort to reach a compromise that > allows EGO_SUM to be un-depracted. > > 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]). > > 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.
