emerge --help takes a long time to produce any output on my old P-200. $ time emerge --help . . . real 0m5.651s user 0m5.378s sys 0m0.152s Could it be made to go faster? I know this sounds picky, but it bothers me every time I want to use some obscure emerge feature that I can't remember the command-line option for.
Nope. Delay is python and the fact hat it's a p200. If you really need it quickly I'd recommend you dump it to a file and use cat/less. emerge --help > emergehelp less emergehelp
