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

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