On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 19:39:03 +0100 Thomas Bächler <thomas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Am 31.12.2013 07:51, schrieb Sébastien Leblanc: > > I would advise against doing that, considering that there are at > > least a handful of packages (can't name them) that have broken or > > otherwise malfunctioning Makefiles when run in parallel. The > > package maintainers _should_ be aware of those issues, and would > > accordingly add 'options="!makeflags"' to their PKGBUILD, but not > > everyone has a multiple core computer, > > Really? Who? > > > nor did everyone test the functionality (there could be > > cases where -j4 runs fine, but -j8 crashes, or other weird race > > conditions). > > You are suggesting not changing to a sane default because some > packages (especially in the AUR) have crappy maintainers. That's > hardly a reason for anything. > > Your defenition of sane default might not match someone elses. Many people prefer their box to not slow to a crawl just because they started makepkg :)
