On Sat, Dec 09, 2006 at 12:06:58PM -0500, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Saturday 09 December 2006 11:55, Axel Thimm wrote: > > That would had been some packages too much (e.g. all non-python > > packages), but who really cares about bandwidth and rawhide. > > Some? There would have been a huge number of spurious rebuilds. So? Other than some CPU cycles wasted who would get hurt? In fact frequent mass rebuilds would disclose bugs that have gone by unnoticed, e.g. when a package's direct or indirect build dependencies change and the maintainer missed to notice that it affects his package indeed. Mass rebuilds would either get the package back in shape (like the python related ones, most packages just need a rebuild) or fail the build raising the maintainer's attention (like the need for python-devel BRs). The point is: Keep the given man power of contributors to being creative, therefore automate as much a possible. And the disttag controlled mass rebuilds are such an automated feature, of which contributors would benefit. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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