On Wed, 17 Dec 2014 20:59:23 -0500, [email protected] wrote:

> Mine takes more than an hour, I don't use tmpfs for /var/tmp/portage
> because sometimes I need many gigs even more than memory for certain
> packages.  But Linux is pretty good at disk caching, so I wonder if that
> is it?

You can change PORTAGE_TMPDIR per-package. I have it on a tmpfs and then
change it for packages like LO.

% cat /etc/portage/package.env/libreoffice 
app-office/libreoffice disk-tmpdir.conf

% cat /etc/portage/env/disk-tmpdir.conf 
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/mnt/scratch"


-- 
Neil Bothwick

... "I just forgot to increment the counter," Tom said, nonplussed.

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