On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 07:38, Chip33AZ@netscape.net wrote:
> the locking feature the second window will wait for the first one to
> grab the files without having problems.

heh, i have always avoided running multiple emerge commands.  Let us
know how that works out for you.  ;-)  I have seen plenty of gentoo'ers
doing this with "no apparent problems", but it seems a bit like Russian
Roulette to me.  The advantage might be that portage has A LOT more
bullets than your average revolver.

The way I understand portage the chances of having a conflict
(especially within the same category of packages) seems fairly
unpredictable.

If compile time is the problem, I would suggest distcc and maybe tuning
your MAKEOPTS to run more parallel threads.  If download
time/reliability is the problem, there isn't much gentoo can do about
that other than letting `emerge -f` trickle down the files before
attempting to install.  Also note, you could do something like this and
come back to check on it periodically.

# emerge -f uberpackage && emerge uberpackage

I enjoy gentoo better than any other distro I have tried, but this is
the biggest problem with the 100% source-based approach.  It generally
takes me about two days to get everything installed on a typical
desktop/laptop or about one day to get everything installed on a
dedicated server (fewer bells & whistles).  And those times assume a
solid, high-speed Internet connection!  Of course, after that pain I
couldn't imagine running anything else.

...Kevin


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