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Comment by swiftcoder

> they don't normally track the build backend as a dependency... It's the "rebuild from source every time" aspect of Gentoo that forces that connection

I don't follow. This feels like Gentoo is mishandling build-tool dependencies.

Does Gentoo also recompile every C/C++ library in the dependency tree every time GCC pushes a minor version bump?

parent swiftcoder 19 days ago

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