Hi James, thank you for your reply.
On Sat, Sep 26, 2015 at 02:08:19PM +0000, James wrote: > I have been following 'bcache' as an interesting addition to complex > compiling scenarios. I'm not certain how it will help your 'wild ideas', > but it is worth a look, imho Yes, I have also heard of bcachefs, but unless I am terribly mistaken, it doesn't offer me anything to solve my actual problem, which is "setting portage environment variables according to MERGE_TYPE". I am aware that my setup might not be ideal and that approaches like bcachefs might help me creating a better compile-install-workflow. But for now -- just for the fun of it -- let's assume that the underlying basis is fixed and all that is left is finding a way to dynamically change variables like PORTAGE_TMPDIR. That could also be used for scenarios like "if the package needs to be compiled, then use every single machine in the local network as a distcc server; if there is already a tbz2 file for the given package, then just install it without searching for potential servers". Portage's bashrc can be a powerful script for several use-cases, but at the moment I am quite sad that I can't change environment variables in there. So, any other ideas? Regards, --Flo
