On Thu, 06 Sep 2012 11:44:07 -0500, Dale wrote: > I kind of get what they are saying but at the same time using tmpfs > doesn't matter. Once the tarball is read off the drive, it doesn't > matter whether portage is run on a tmpfs or not.
Reading the tarball has nothing to do with this, we are discussing filesystems for PORTAGE_TMPDIR, not DISTDIR. It's where the source is unpacked, the object files compiled to, the executables linked to and the install image created that is relevant to TMPDIR. -- Neil Bothwick What's the difference between ignorance and apathy? I don't know and I don't care
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