On Sun, 14 Apr 2013 12:33:50 -0600, Joseph wrote:

> How to configure portage not to compile large packages (eg. firefox,
> thunderbird etc) in "/var/tmp/portage/" (RAM disk)? I have only assign
> 4GB and these packages need more room to compile. 

I use these two files

% cat /etc/portage/env/disk-tmpdir.conf 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/scratch"

% cat /etc/portage/package.env/libreoffice 
app-office/libreoffice disk-tmpdir.conf

/mnt/scratch is a dumping ground partition with enough space to keep LO
happy, use wherever you want.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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