emerging different programs at the time?

wimbo

hello,

i completely new to gentoo (not to linux). all night long (and this morning) my computer is compiling / emerging openoffice. it looks like it'll take some more time. so i was wondering, can i emerge another program while this is compiling? since i'm waiting here now and i really need to burn a cd, but i don't have the software installed...

greetz,

wimbo

Maedhros · Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 10:55 am Post subject:

Yup! You might find yourself in trouble if both emerges are trying to install the same dependencies, but if they're both installing totally seperate packages, it'll be fine.
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guitou · Guru Joined: 02 Oct 2003 Posts: 534 Location: France

In fact it is possible to run multiple instances of emerge at the same time, but also a little "dangerous", as you have to be sure there are no dependencies between the different packages merged... the comman advice is "don't do it unless you know what you do" !

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wimbo · Posted: Fri Aug 20, 2004 12:40 pm Post subject:

hmm, i thought i would be something like that.

is there a way to find out wether two programs have dependecies between them? i checked with --pretend and ofcourse OOo and k3b aren' t directly dependent, but i think they botrh will be compiling against kde or qt and so. so that might be a problem or not?

wimbo