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?
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