On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 4:50 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan
<contact@nileshgr.com> wrote:
On Aug 13, 2012 2:19 PM, "Nilesh Govindrajan" <contact@nileshgr.com> wrote:
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> What's the disadvantage of compiling in sandbox instead of compiling directly with userpriv?
*advantage
If you do things like parallel builds (-j applied to emerge, not just make), a sandbox can help keep the build environment consistent throughout a build. (And if that's not a feature that's currently in sandbox, it's one where an extension of which is being discussed in -dev right now, and being worked on by a few people.)
The other thing sandbox gives you is some protection from badly-written build systems, such as ones which go out and modify files outside of explicitly-allowed paths and the like, or try installing files before 'make install'...that kind of thing.
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