Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 24 Jan 2015 07:03:30 +0100, Tomas Mozes wrote: > >> Binary packages: >> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.devel/94176 > In my experience, using the -k or -K option makes emerge take longer to > calculate the package list, which makes sense as it also needs to check > the availability of packages. > > You could try a lower --backtrack value, but the time saved may be more > than lost again when it causes problems. > >
Setting the backtrack to a lower value was all I could think of too. Other than that, I think it just needs horsepower under the hood. This topic reminds me of when I was installing Gentoo on a 133 MHz machine with around 256MBs of ram. It's been a while but still, it was slow. Dale :-) :-)
