From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Qcjvk-0000vb-Rf for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 20:03:13 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F0E191C02E; Fri, 1 Jul 2011 20:01:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [94.23.166.77]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B86991C02E for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2011 20:01:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from weird.localnet (p5B274E10.dip.t-dialin.net [91.39.78.16]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id D33A74A800C for ; Fri, 1 Jul 2011 22:01:22 +0200 (CEST) From: Alex Schuster To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 22:01:20 +0200 Message-ID: <4098076.QnEQ6VGPH5@weird> User-Agent: KMail/4.6.0 (Linux/2.6.38-pf8; KDE/4.6.4; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <871uy9q0kg.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87k4cdcz55.fsf@newsguy.com> <1309543009.3581.8.camel@localhost.localdomain> <871uy9q0kg.fsf@newsguy.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: aab627ee79ffd4070a70cd85df7b9c31 Harry Putnam writes: > Albert Hopkins writes: > > You've never heard of FEATURES (or --jobs)? May want to peruse the > > man pages a bit. FEATURES is a very fundamental part of portage (man > > make.conf). > > Sorry for being a lazy slug... I've used the same /etc/make.conf for > several yrs with no problems... so didn't really think to look there. Have a look at /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example and compare, you might be surprised. > I've found my systems to do pretty well without those FEATURES or --jobs > entries. Oh, --jobs is really really cool. Apart from the small speedup I like it because of the nicer, cleaner progress output you get from your emerges. Wonko