Re: [gentoo-user] Are multiple emerges safe?

[Beau E. Cox]

On Sunday 29 January 2006 01:04 am, Andrei Slavoiu wrote:
> --- "Beau E. Cox" <beaucox@×××××××××.com> wrote:
> > Hi -
> >
> > Can I safely emerge (different packages,
> > non-interdependent) in
> > different terminal sessions at the same time?
> >
> > --
> > Aloha => Beau;
> >
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> Yes, you can start as many sesions of emerge as you
> like, even for the same package, portage uses locks to
> make sure they do not conflict with each other.
> A very useful application for this is to do something
> like this: in one console start `emerge -f kde` and in
> another `emerge kde`. The first will just download the
> files needed and the second will compile them.

That's good to know. I used Sorcerer for about two years and
was burned by trying multiple 'casts' (the Sorcerer emerge)
several times, so I just wanted to check.

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Aloha => Beau;

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