Re: [gentoo-user] is multi-core really worth it?

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On 22/11/17 14:11, Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor wrote:
>
> You won't get build failures or dependency problems, portage is built to
> handle emerging multiple packages that do not depend on each other
> simultaneously.
> it will not ever build a dependency and the main program at the same time.

Are you sure?

You *shouldn't* get problems, but I'm sure I have hit that problem, and
I think it's down to buggy ebuilds.

Starting the emerge again fixes it, because cocked-up dependencies will
sort themselves out first time round, and the second time the problem
has gone away.

Cheers,
Wol