On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 10:25:58PM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote > Running MAKEOPTS="-j1" as default on a multi-core processor seems an > awful waste of resources, unless it is needed for something else, in > which case I don't run emerge at all.
Running around for a few hours trying to replicate an unreplicatable build failure is even more of a waste. After the first couple of builds that ran into problems, and were cured by -j1, I made it the default on my mcahines. -- Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications