[Nix-dev] stdenv rebuild warning

[Marc Weber]

Excerpts from Peter Simons's message of Thu Aug 05 12:19:48 +0200 2010:
> on Friday, August 6th I'll commit two small patches to 'trunk' that modify
> pkgs/stdenv/generic/setup.sh (see <87wrs8vuoh.fsf at write-only.cryp.to> for
> further details). The effect is going to be a re-build of all packages that
> depends on stdenv, which is pretty much everything. If you'd like to avoid
> doing that re-build, you might want to wait a day before updating your
> installation to make sure that Hydra is finished re-building the binary
> packages. Or, to put it differently, if you have urgent updates to perform
> on your system, it might be a good idea to do them now.

My two cents: This means collaboration is dead. This means the users who
commit first will win. So I will behave the same in the future.

So I ask everybody to stop complaining about it :-(

You can review exactly that thread you're referring to to find out why.

Yours
Marc Weber