* Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > If one instance of emerge doesn't know what the other instance has > already done, then the second one could emerge it again. Doesn't emerge > do all the calculating at the beginning and runs with that until the end?
That's also one of my questions - does parallel emerge instances know if some dependency had already been built/installed in the middle ? > I am using the -j option for the first time now. I'm updating KDE. It > seems to work fine. It doesn't scroll all the stuff like with a regular > emerges but this new rig is so fast, I can't read it anyway. I did have > a package to fail and it spit out the error for me to read. BTW: does -j / --jobs also cause a parallel make (-j parameter to gmake) ? cu -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Enrico Weigelt, metux IT service -- http://www.metux.de/ phone: +49 36207 519931 email: weig...@metux.de mobile: +49 151 27565287 icq: 210169427 skype: nekrad666 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Embedded-Linux / Portierung / Opensource-QM / Verteilte Systeme ----------------------------------------------------------------------
