I think it could be useful for there to be an feature that can be set within the FEATURES flag to make the /var/tmp/portage dir a ramdisk. When an emerge starts it could check for this flag, if there, mount /var/tmp/portage as a ramdisk/tmpfs and then contiune with the install. I am compiling openmotif right now in a ramdisk and it seems to be going a lot faster than usual. I'll post a comparative time after it's finished compiling. I think this could be a useful feature for those with a good chunk of ram. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
mount -t tmpfs -o size=1G none /var/tmp/portage You could even add it to /etc/fstab...
yes, that is true. Either way works :)