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Gentoo protip: using buildpkgonly
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Thu 25 April 2013

If you don't want to have the majority of builds run in the background while you are busy on the system, but you don't want to automatically install software in the background when you are not behind your desk, then perhaps you can settle for using binary packages. I'm not …