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From: flameeyes@gmail.com (Diego 'Flameeyes' =?utf-8?Q?Petten=C3=B2?=)
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Create a JOBS variable to replace -jX in MAKEOPTS
Date: Fri, 05 Dec 2008 11:45:09
Message-Id: m2k5ae4zir.fsf@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Create a JOBS variable to replace -jX in MAKEOPTS by Peter Volkov
1 Peter Volkov <pva@g.o> writes:
2
3 > This variable will be used in eclasses so it's better to avoid portage
4 > in it's name, since not only portage will work with it. GENTOO_JOBS is
5 > really something new in sense of consistency. EJOBS looks most terse for
6 > me but I'll be ok with any name...
7
8 It's just I don't want to end up colliding with other stuff like
9 EclipseJobs or something else.
10
11 And my reason to not propose PORTAGE_JOBS is actually that it suggests
12 relation with -j option to emerge rather than make ;)
13
14 > For load average may be it's good to use another variable to avoid
15 > overloading of "JOBS" meaning?
16
17 Agreed, easier than ending up having to parse a variable content, after
18 all environment variables are kinda cheap.
19
20 --
21 Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò
22 http://blog.flameeyes.eu/