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To: David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org>
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From: linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon)
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Subject: Re: Is -j safe to use when building or updating ports?
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Short answer: with the current infrastructure, it isn't.  There is a
WIP to fix this, but I dropped the ball in completing the review of it.

The problem is dealing with the dependencies.

mcl