Re: [gentoo-user] is multi-core really worth it?

2017-11-21 Thread David Haller
Hello, On Wed, 22 Nov 2017, Raffaele Belardi wrote: >rebuilding system and world with gcc-7.2.0 on a 6-core AMD CPU I have >the impression that most of the ebuilds limit parallel builds to 1, 2 >or 3 threads. Most should build with "many" cores, but some might be limited, but ... >I'm aware it

Re: [gentoo-user] is multi-core really worth it?

2017-11-21 Thread Jeremi Piotrowski
On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 07:52:54AM +0100, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > Hi, > > rebuilding system and world with gcc-7.2.0 on a 6-core AMD CPU I have the > impression that > most of the ebuilds limit parallel builds to 1, 2 or 3 threads. I'm aware it > is only an > impression, I did not spend the

Re: [gentoo-user] is multi-core really worth it?

2017-11-21 Thread R0b0t1
Hello, On Wed, Nov 22, 2017 at 12:52 AM, Raffaele Belardi wrote: > Hi, > > rebuilding system and world with gcc-7.2.0 on a 6-core AMD CPU I have the > impression that > most of the ebuilds limit parallel builds to 1, 2 or 3 threads. I'm aware it > is only an >

[gentoo-user] is multi-core really worth it?

2017-11-21 Thread Raffaele Belardi
Hi, rebuilding system and world with gcc-7.2.0 on a 6-core AMD CPU I have the impression that most of the ebuilds limit parallel builds to 1, 2 or 3 threads. I'm aware it is only an impression, I did not spend the night monitoring the process, but nevertheless every time I checked the load was

[gentoo-user] Intel ucode updates for ME issues?

2017-11-21 Thread Adam Carter
I notice that an update for sys-firmware/intel-microcode just come through on ~amd64, does that address the ME issues? http://www.zdnet.com/article/intel-weve-found-severe-bugs-in-secretive-management-engine-affecting-millions/ Or will my NUC need a firmware update?

Re: [gentoo-user] gst-plugins blocker

2017-11-21 Thread Rich Freeman
On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 8:36 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 21/11/2017 15:03, Mick wrote: >> I see that > media-libs/gst- >> plugins-base-1.12.3, so I removed various gst-plugins and net-libs/farstream, >> emerged -1 media-libs/gst-plugins-base-1.12.3, but portage

Re: [gentoo-user] gst-plugins blocker

2017-11-21 Thread Quico Jurado
Yesterday I experienced the same problem and ended up doing the same thing of keywording "=media-libs/gst-plugins-bad-1.12.3". Cheers! On Tue, Nov 21, 2017 at 7:46 AM, Mick wrote: > On Tuesday, 21 November 2017 13:36:26 GMT Alan McKinnon wrote: > > On 21/11/2017

Re: [gentoo-user] gst-plugins blocker

2017-11-21 Thread Mick
On Tuesday, 21 November 2017 13:36:26 GMT Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 21/11/2017 15:03, Mick wrote: > > I see that > media-libs/gst- plugins-base-1.12.3, so I removed various gst-plugins and > > net-libs/farstream, emerged -1 media-libs/gst-plugins-base-1.12.3, but > > portage continues to

Re: [gentoo-user] gst-plugins blocker

2017-11-21 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 21/11/2017 15:03, Mick wrote: > I see that plugins-base-1.12.3, so I removed various gst-plugins and net-libs/farstream, > emerged -1 media-libs/gst-plugins-base-1.12.3, but portage continues to > complain, with backtrack=99 or not. > > What is the way to overcome this? > >

[gentoo-user] gst-plugins blocker

2017-11-21 Thread Mick
I see that =media-libs/gst-plugins-base-1.4:1.0 required by (net-libs/ farstream-0.2.8-r1:0.2/5::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) >=media-libs/gst-plugins-