[gentoo-user] Kinda Two-step-installation ?

[gentoo-user] Kinda Two-step-installation ?

[Meino Christian Cramer]

Hi,

 suppose I want to install a *BIG* (tm) package, which takes a *long*
 time to compile. The default USE sets (beside other things) "-doc".

 Ok, I emerge the stuff, take a coffee or two and after the CPU has
 cooled down again I realize, that I cannot use the installed program
 without the docs.

 Do I have a chance to install only the docs without recompiling the
 whole stuff via emerge, if the archive as such would support this ?

 Thank you very much in advance for any helpful reply ! :)

 keep hacking!
 mcc
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Re: [gentoo-user] Kinda Two-step-installation ?

[Daniel da Veiga]

On 4/5/06, Meino Christian Cramer <Meino.Cramer@gmx.de> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
>  suppose I want to install a *BIG* (tm) package, which takes a *long*
>  time to compile. The default USE sets (beside other things) "-doc".
>
>  Ok, I emerge the stuff, take a coffee or two and after the CPU has
>  cooled down again I realize, that I cannot use the installed program
>  without the docs.
>
>  Do I have a chance to install only the docs without recompiling the
>  whole stuff via emerge, if the archive as such would support this ?
>
>  Thank you very much in advance for any helpful reply ! :)
>
>  keep hacking!
>  mcc
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> gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
>
>

If you have the feature "keepwork" in your FEATURES variable at
make.conf, yes, but that broke some tries for me, so the best way is
ccache, it really improve recompilations of the same package (up to
ten times faster at my machine). There are some tips about it at the
foruns, I learned the hard way (had to recompile whole openoffice
twice before using ccache).

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