It's slow here: >>> Emerging (1 of 1) dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.7.0.67 * jdk-7u67-apidocs.zip SHA256 SHA512 WHIRLPOOL size ;-) ... [ ok ] >>> Unpacking source... >>> Unpacking jdk-7u67-apidocs.zip to /var/tmp/portage/dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.7.0.67/work >>> Source unpacked in /var/tmp/portage/dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.7.0.67/work >>> Preparing source in /var/tmp/portage/dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.7.0.67/work/docs ... >>> Source prepared. >>> Configuring source in /var/tmp/portage/dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.7.0.67/work/docs ... >>> Source configured. >>> Compiling source in /var/tmp/portage/dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.7.0.67/work/docs ... >>> Source compiled. >>> Test phase [not enabled]: dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.7.0.67 >>> Install java-sdk-docs-1.7.0.67 into /var/tmp/portage/dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.7.0.67/image/ category dev-java ps shows that emerge is doing "doins -r" which is forking off a python script for each file like so: /usr/bin/python2.7 /usr/lib64/portage/bin/install.py -m0644 jdk/api/javac/tree/com/sun/source/tree/Scope.html /var/tmp/portage/dev-java/java-sdk-docs-1.7.0.67/image//usr/share/doc/java-sdk-docs-1.7.0.67/html/jdk/api/javac/tree/com/sun/source/tree which is a horribly inefficient thing to do for 13958 files. Like this it manages to install files at a rate of about 10 files per second! Reproducible: Always
NB: this is quite a "normal" system, nothing slow. HP laptop with an ext4 filesystem.
You need to install sys-apps/install-xattr (see bug 465000). *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 482290 ***
