On Sat, 17 Jan 2009 16:31:30 +0300
Peter Volkov <p...@gentoo.org> wrote:

> Hi Peter.
> 
> > NO_MONO_DEPEND=(
> >     "dev-lang/mono"
> >     "dev-dotnet/libgdiplus"
> >     "dev-dotnet/gluezilla"
> > )
> 
> Just curious. What are the reasons to use array here?

I try to use arrays as often as possible, so I don't have to worry
about the shortcomings of variables. In the above example, you're
correct that there's no reason to use them over variables.

> > go-mono_src_install () {
> >     emake -j1 DESTDIR="${D}" install || die "install failed"
> 
> Is parallel make broken everywhere? :O This is real pain since smp
> systems became much more common these days.

It's only the install phase, and yes, it's generally broken. But that's
not really newsworthy, is it?

/PA

BTW
--jobs combined with --load-average rocks for smp systems. Total system
rebuild of 1200 packages in <12 hours.


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