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by biglost 1963 days ago
With gentoo i use tmpfs and it works really well
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bombcar 1963 days ago
Do you have details on how to enable this?
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account42 1963 days ago
Just mount a ramdisk over your portage TMPDIR (default /var/tmp/portage). You will need a decent amount of ram though for larger packages like LLVM. Disabling debug symbols will reduce the required space a bit.
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