Ciaran McCreesh wrote:
On Wed, 5 Jan 2005 22:55:12 +0000 Stuart Herbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I'd like to put together a doc full of advice on what users can do to | reduce how long it takes to build packages. I'm sure that there's | plenty of you with your own opinions on this, so let's have it ;-)
Don't use c++ apps. Buy a lot more RAM. Switch to SCSI or FC hard drives. Turn off as many USE flags as you can get away with. Mount /var/tmp/portage on tmpfs. Avoid silly CFLAGS. Don't compile whilst mplayer is running. Turn off CPU frequency scaling.
Don't use apps that require compiling ( Perl and Python! ).
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