On Sun, Sep 18, 2011 at 11:33 PM, XeCycle <xecycle@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi, I build Emacs from git quite frequently, about twice a month or so. > However the PKGBUILD from AUR rebuilds everything each time, which takes > too many time I think. Perhaps Emacs is small, but I think there should > be a way to prevent too many rebuilds --- is that possible? > > -- > Carl Lei (XeCycle) > Department of Physics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University > OpenPGP public key: 7795E591 > Fingerprint: 1FB6 7F1F D45D F681 C845 27F7 8D71 8EC4 7795 E591 > yaourt has an option to compile vcs packages in a separate directory rather than the default /tmp directory. in this way, the download part in every recompile can be minimized. just fyi.