Re: [gentoo-user] checking for.....

2008-05-02 Thread Brandon Mintern
ccache caches the compile step. I believe the OP was specifically looking for something that would cache the answers to the "checking for" lines (the configuration step). On Fri, May 2, 2008 at 4:49 AM, Wolf Canis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > Hello, > "ccache" does caching, I use

Re: [gentoo-user] Wireshark won't run except as root (Solved but Why is this)

2008-05-01 Thread Brandon Mintern
Have you logged out and back in since becoming a member of the wireshark group? A quick way to test without having to log out and back in would be to Ctrl-Alt-F2 (or whatever) over to a virtual terminal and log in there, and then try to run the command. If that works, of course, you just need to lo

Re: [gentoo-user] checking for.....

2008-05-01 Thread Brandon Mintern
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 3:11 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In the middle of doing a major upgrade from very old pkgs to current > 2008 and compiling lots and lots of stuff. > > Seeing that line `checking for WHATEVER' go by 486,211 times so far > makes me wonder if there wouldn't be someway t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-05-01 Thread Brandon Mintern
On Thu, May 1, 2008 at 3:06 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Brandon Mintern" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Call me old school, but that method never takes me more than a few > > minutes to do. I am also someone in the vim camp. It fires u

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: smoothest way to jump from 2006 to 2008

2008-05-01 Thread Brandon Mintern
My cleanup routine pretty much involves running vim on /var/lib/portage/world and going down the list. If I see something I definitely don't need, I remove that line. If I see something that I don't remember what it was, in another terminal (just an ALT-TAB away) I run "esearch package-name". After