When Portage updates crap on the PC, does it rebuild all the crap from scratch, or does it patch the existing sources on the hard drive and rebuild just the changed files?
Patches from scratches
>>55141096
Does it recompile files that have not changed also?
>>55140936
not using elinks, whats wrong with you
>>55140936
Rebuilds. It only keeps the sources on failed builds, then you can inspect what went wrong.
>>55141174
My response was ambiguous, it rebuilds from scratch
Read >>55141536
>>55140936
From scratch by default, but you can enable CCACHE.