On Tuesday 30 January 2007 15:22, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote: > On Tuesday 30 January 2007 14:09:43 Neil Bothwick wrote: > > > Why would PORTAGE_TMPDIR be required to or in any way benefit > > > from surviving reboots? > > > > Ask that when you've had a power failure ten hours into an OOo > > emerge :-O > > So you actually used FEATURES=keepwork for that?
Doesn't FEATURES=keepwork cause /var/tmp/portage/<pkg cat>/<pkg name> to not be deleted after a *successful* merge? I don't use that feature and the work files for all failed emerges are always left behind. Not that they are especially useful in any way... > Anyway if you know > how to do that you certainly know how to avoid that /tmp gets wiped > during reboot too (which it doesn't unless you make it so). And OOo > only takes 5½ hours to compile.. :p Hah, so my machine isn't so bad. 4 hours 57 minutes 34 seconds with everything enabled except linguas (english only) and dev stuff. 4 hours 2 seconds with gnome, kde and all other fluff out of USE. It's enough to make a fellow wanna consider openoffice-bin... alan -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
