Well...I got to trying the methods out tonight...and first started with a 'time' of my standard procedure...
$ time emerge world -vuDNp real 1m41.658s user 1m8.664s sys 0m16.921s $ time emerge world -vuDNp real 0m36.697s user 0m35.026s sys 0m1.124s That was two runs right in a row...but no where near the time level I saw the other day - which was well over half an hour. (I went to bed before it stopped the other day...) I am going to guess that it was a portage cache issue and the daily update fixed it, or something. Any how...will keep the ideas in mind should it happen again. Thanks All! Ben ----- Original Message ---- From: Daniel Pielmeier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2008 10:04:11 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge takes a long time calculating dependencies... 2008/9/18 BRM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > And I am only referring to the time specified in the "calculating > dependencies" stage when one first runs "emerge world -vuDNp". Is the second run significantly faster, if yes chances are high that there is a problem with the portage cache.
