Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

[Alex Schuster]

Harry Putnam writes:

> Albert Hopkins <marduk@×××××××××××.org> writes:

> > You've never heard of FEATURES (or --jobs)?  May want to peruse the
> > man pages a bit.  FEATURES is a very fundamental part of portage (man
> > make.conf).
>
> Sorry for being a lazy slug... I've used the same /etc/make.conf for
> several yrs with no problems... so didn't really think to look there.

Have a look at /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example and compare, you 
might be surprised.


> I've found my systems to do pretty well without those FEATURES or --jobs
> entries.

Oh, --jobs is really really cool. Apart from the small speedup I like it 
because of the nicer, cleaner progress output you get from your emerges.

	Wonko