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From: Lisa Seelye <lisa@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Parallizing ebuilds - 'trivial' ebuilds
Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2006 00:59:35
Message-Id: 1137027349.7003.302.camel@localhost
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Parallizing ebuilds - 'trivial' ebuilds by Ferris McCormick
1 On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 00:18 +0000, Ferris McCormick wrote:
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5 > On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Lisa Seelye wrote:
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7 > > On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 14:51 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
8 > >> I've been cleaning up media-fonts/ to work with modular-X, and I see a
9 > >> lot of ebuilds with stuff like this:
10 > >> for font in *.bdf; do
11 > >> /usr/X11R6/bin/bdftopcf ${font} > `basename $font .bdf`.pcf
12 > >> done
13 > >> gzip *.pcf
14 > >>
15 > >> For having 100 files in *bdf, this is so serial it's painful.
16 > >
17 > > And here I was hoping Distcc would get some usage. :(
18 > >
19 >
20 > Distcc gets lots of usage with modular X. But for the fonts? :)
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22 Time for distfont? ;)
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25 Regards,
26 Lisa Seelye
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Parallizing ebuilds - 'trivial' ebuilds Philippe Trottier <tchiwam@g.o>