On Nov 20, 2011 2:04 PM, "James Broadhead" <jamesbroadh...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On 20 November 2011 18:32, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote: >> >> On Sun, 20 Nov 2011 09:07:33 -0500, Michael Mol wrote: >> >> > Ok, then I'll narrow my guess to the size required being dependent on >> > USE flag combinations. >> >> Also CFLAGS and architecture, to a lesser extent. > > > Seeing as the ebuild is 'aware' of CFLAGS and USE, it would be nice if it would use that information (roughly) to determine how much space to check for. > > 4-9GiB is a pretty wide range.
Imractical; you'd have a count of possible sizes increase geometrically with the number of USE flags, and it's not going to be something so simple as "this adds N MB, this adds M MB..."
