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Bug 805941 - [Tracker] Packages violating small file policy
Summary: [Tracker] Packages violating small file policy
Status: CONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: Quality Assurance
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Trackers (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: Normal normal
Assignee: Gentoo Quality Assurance Team
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Keywords: Tracker
Depends on: 198901 805935 509146 805938
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Reported: 2021-08-01 10:22 UTC by Sam James
Modified: 2022-08-25 05:02 UTC (History)
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Description Sam James archtester Gentoo Infrastructure gentoo-dev Security 2021-08-01 10:22:29 UTC
See https://projects.gentoo.org/qa/policy-guide/installed-files.html#pg0301.

The gist is that we don't provide USE flags where the only difference in the image is a few small files, as it causes a wasteful rebuild.