Alec Ten Harmsel <a...@alectenharmsel.com> wrote: > > > On 12/17/2014 04:59 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 18/12/2014 04:45, Harry Putnam wrote: > >> Is there any advantage one way or the other emerging firefox.bin vs > >> firefox? > > Depends on your needs: > > > > firefox: > > - pro: you get all the USE flags > > - pro: you don't get bundled libs from Mozilla, the ebuild can use > > system libs > > - pro: the compiled binaries are integrated into gentoo like other ebuilds > > - con: slow compiles. I have 8 i7 cores and 16G. the merge takes 20-35 > > minutes... > > Really? 20-35 minutes? I have 6 cores and 32G, and firefox only takes 10 > minutes. Do you have PORTAGE_TMPDIR mounted on tmpfs? > > Alec
Mine takes more than an hour, I don't use tmpfs for /var/tmp/portage because sometimes I need many gigs even more than memory for certain packages. But Linux is pretty good at disk caching, so I wonder if that is it? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici cov...@ccs.covici.com