On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 02:06:26AM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > Why not just have some ENV variable (CONCURRENCY_LEVEL?) which > specifies the maximum -j; the package maintainer is free to choose any > level equal to or below that. > [...] > This has the disadvantage of not automatically using -j for every > package and requiring maintainer buy in to see results... but > presumably those packages where it actually makes a difference will > adopt it just so maintainer builds don't take as long.
Yes, makes sense to me. When CONCURRENCY_LEVEL already works in reality, we could adopt it and make it a standard env var. -- Ciao... // Fon: 0381-2744150 Ingo \X/ SIP: [EMAIL PROTECTED] gpg pubkey: http://www.juergensmann.de/ij/public_key.asc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]