On Sunday 29 January 2006 01:04 am, Andrei Slavoiu wrote: > --- "Beau E. Cox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi - > > > > Can I safely emerge (different packages, > > non-interdependent) in > > different terminal sessions at the same time? > > > > -- > > Aloha => Beau; > > > > -- > > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > Yes, you can start as many sesions of emerge as you > like, even for the same package, portage uses locks to > make sure they do not conflict with each other. > A very useful application for this is to do something > like this: in one console start `emerge -f kde` and in > another `emerge kde`. The first will just download the > files needed and the second will compile them.
That's good to know. I used Sorcerer for about two years and was burned by trying multiple 'casts' (the Sorcerer emerge) several times, so I just wanted to check. > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com -- Aloha => Beau; -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
