On Fri, 21 Feb 2014 16:14:00 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:

> I recently needed to unmerge Netbeans and KDE from a machine. So
> removed the top-level packages of those, and then ran:
> 
>    emerge -a --depclean --jobs 20
> 
> However, "--jobs" is being ignored. So I'm sitting there, watching 
> hundreds of packages being unmerged one by one, taking a long time :-/

--jobs applies to the compilation phase of emerge. You can see that it is
only ever installing one package at a time, so it is not surprising that
the same applies to uninstalling. It makes sense, at least from the
install perspective, portage checks for file collisions, if two packages
tried to install the same file concurrently, it wouldn't be able to deal
with the collision.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Accordion: a bagpipe with pleats.