Re: [gentoo-user] Calculating dependencies...: Any way to make it faster?

[Dale]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Jan 2015 07:03:30 +0100, Tomas Mozes wrote:
>
>> Binary packages:
>> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/94176
> In my experience, using the -k or -K option makes emerge take longer to
> calculate the package list, which makes sense as it also needs to check
> the availability of packages.
>
> You could try a lower --backtrack value, but the time saved may be more
> than lost again when it causes problems.
>
>


Setting the backtrack to a lower value was all I could think of too. 
Other than that, I think it just needs horsepower under the hood.

This topic reminds me of when I was installing Gentoo on a 133 MHz
machine with around 256MBs of ram.  It's been a while but still, it was
slow.

Dale

:-)  :-)