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From: "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] is multi-core really worth it?
Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2017 16:27:31
Message-Id: 6661527.9k004Oio64@eve
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] is multi-core really worth it? by Wols Lists
1 On Wednesday, November 22, 2017 3:34:56 PM CET Wols Lists wrote:
2 > On 22/11/17 14:11, Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor wrote:
3 > > You won't get build failures or dependency problems, portage is built to
4 > > handle emerging multiple packages that do not depend on each other
5 > > simultaneously.
6 > > it will not ever build a dependency and the main program at the same time.
7 >
8 > Are you sure?
9 >
10 > You *shouldn't* get problems, but I'm sure I have hit that problem, and
11 > I think it's down to buggy ebuilds.
12
13 buggy, as in, at least one dependency missed.
14
15 > Starting the emerge again fixes it, because cocked-up dependencies will
16 > sort themselves out first time round, and the second time the problem
17 > has gone away.
18
19 2nd time the dependency might have been installed already.
20 Sometime it hasn't.
21
22 This can also cause a failure when not using parallel builds for exactly the
23 same reason.
24
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26 Joost

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