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On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Al <oss.elmar@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Some thoughts of the day |
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> With multicore machines compilation itself is relativly fast. The |
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> bigger part of time meanwhile is spend for the system check before |
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> compilation. Each program das it again and 90% of the checks check |
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> the same stuff. |
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> I wounder if efforts have been made to reduce this repeated checks. |
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confcache |
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It can (or used to be able to) be used with portage, though I think it |
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is discouraged because it can cause some other problems. I used it for |
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a while and never noticed any ill effects, but maybe I wasn't looking |
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in the right places. I read enough about it being bad that I stopped |
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using it out of fear. |
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The better time-saver is probably parallel emerges (emerge -j) which |
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can configure multiple packages at once. It also has quirks but works |
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most of the time. :) |
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