Re: [gentoo-user] Portage improved

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Thursday 31 October 2024 11:56:41 GMT Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Friday 11 October 2024 11:49:18 GMT I wrote:
> > On Saturday 14 September 2024 13:05:26 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > > Just one little fly in the ointment: the status string became too long
> > > to
> > > show properly. Perhaps shorter phrases could be used, or numbers limited
> > > to two digits, or the 80-character line limit exceeded while running in
> > > an
> > > x-term.
> > 
> > And indeed the line limit has been relaxed: it uses the full 90 characters
> > of my Konsoles.
> 
> More to do yet though. The merge-wait idea works well with humongous
> packages like nodejs and the web engines, but it's too cautious with
> ordinary ones. I've been building (too many) new systems over the last
> fortnight, and when there are, say, a hundred packages to compile, the load
> steadies out at about 4, with several more in merge-wait. This is with i24
> l30 in make.conf.

There's also a logic problem. When a package enters the Installing phase, it's 
shown instead as Merge Wait, or it's added to that queue.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.