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Steven J Long wrote:
> since the metadata generation phase is a
> restricted subset of SH, leave alone BASH, at least aiui.
>
Er that's wrong; that applies to make.conf not ebuilds; I recall
hearing "full BASH is required for metadata generation" several times
on -dev.
Given that, saving a fork during cache building (or indeed at any time) is A
Good Idea™, even when we're not on crippleDOS.
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