On Fri, 12 May 2006 07:27:14 -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:

> > > > I'm going one step further with gcc 4.1.0. After I emerged gcc and
> > > > glibc... I did an "emerge -e system" twice and am now following up
> > > > with two "emerge -e world" commands...
> > >
> > > Wow, you like to waste a lot of CPU cycles...
> >
> > Actually... nothing is wasted.
> 
> Actually, that's quite a BIT of waste.  There's about 30(?), maybe more 
> packages in system, depending on your use flags.  About 4-5 are your 
> toolchain.  So, there's 25+ compiles wasted per system pass.

And system is included in emerge -e world, so you are actually compiling
these packages four times!


-- 
Neil Bothwick

Klingon function calls do not have 'parameters' - they have 'arguments'
 -and they ALWAYS WIN THEM.

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