Harry Putnam writes:
> Albert Hopkins <mar...@letterboxes.org> 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
