multi-tasking

[ixion]

some emerges (phoenix for example) take quite some time... being the impatient, multitasking, 'attention deficit victim' that I am, would it be prudent to do other things (not another emerge, but permission changes, symlink additions, troubleshooting, etc) while an emerge is processing?? If not, that's fine, just a silly question I have.

[bsolar]

I usually emerge from konsole while webbrowsing, editing, mailing ecc... all but resource-consuming things (like playing hyper-speedy 3d games...) and never had problems. I also have no qualms in doing multiple emerges.

Once I was emergin sun-j2sdk from a konsole, koffice from another and other things from a third-one (I rememeber I emerged mplayer, crafty, pure-ftpd and something more waiting for the bigger packages). Still I was able to browse internet without any major slowdown (well I think 512Mb ram were helpful...)

And yes, my system is up and functional...

When emerging a package it will be compiled in a temporary directory and only after this is completed it will be merged in the system.

[rac]

[bsolar]