Re: [gentoo-user] firefox.bin vs firefox

Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 20:59:23 -0500, covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
>
> > Mine takes more than an hour, I don't use tmpfs for /var/tmp/portage
> > because sometimes I need many gigs even more than memory for certain
> > packages.  But Linux is pretty good at disk caching, so I wonder if that
> > is it?
>
> You can change PORTAGE_TMPDIR per-package. I have it on a tmpfs and then
> change it for packages like LO.
>
> % cat /etc/portage/package.env/libreoffice
> app-office/libreoffice disk-tmpdir.conf
>
> % cat /etc/portage/env/disk-tmpdir.conf
> PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/scratch"

That is interesting, but firefox requires 8g I think of temp space, the
very package which takes so long.  I have 16g of memory, but I wonder if
my whole system would start to crawl.


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