On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 4:50 AM, Nilesh Govindrajan <cont...@nileshgr.com>wrote:
> On Aug 13, 2012 2:19 PM, "Nilesh Govindrajan" <cont...@nileshgr.com> > wrote: > > > > What's the disadvantage of compiling in sandbox instead of compiling > directly with userpriv? > > *advantage > If you do things like parallel builds (-j applied to emerge, not just make), a sandbox can help keep the build environment consistent throughout a build. (And if that's not a feature that's currently in sandbox, it's one where an extension of which is being discussed in -dev right now, and being worked on by a few people.) The other thing sandbox gives you is some protection from badly-written build systems, such as ones which go out and modify files outside of explicitly-allowed paths and the like, or try installing files before 'make install'...that kind of thing. -- :wq
