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Linux protip: environment for a process
by Sven Vermeulen, post on Tue 07 January 2014

Just a quick pro-tip: if you need to know the environment variables for a process, you can see them in that process' /proc/${PID}/environ file. The file however shows the environment variables on one line, with a null character as separator. With a simple sed you can show it …

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 …