I can compromise by giving people a choice between...
a) Run the safe setting "-j1"
b) Run a with a higher value. If a compile blows up on you, try it
again with "-j1" before reporting a bug or asking for help.
First this mistakenly makes it seem that emerge failures are due to whatever
the -j value is defined as.
Very few failures (other than those that are already known) are a result of
having a higher -j value than 1. 98% of the time reducing to -j1 will not
fix an emerge error; the error typically lies elsewhere.
Secondly priority should be given to the higher values. Listing them in the
order that you specify will make it seem that if they choose route (b) then
they will have problems, which you have yet to prove.
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