[arch-general] Default value of "j" in makeflags of makepkg.conf

Leonid Isaev lisaev at umail.iu.edu
Tue Dec 31 14:38:37 EST 2013


On Tue, 31 Dec 2013 19:39:03 +0100
Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:

> Really? Who?

Hmm, me. Intel atom here...

> 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.

A sane default would probably be $(nproc)-1. But in general, is it a good
idea to have calls to binaries in a config file? So far, makepkg.conf doesn't
have anything like this.

Happy new year,
Leonid.

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