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Subject: Re: [PATCH] bitbake: added -j option
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On Mon, 21 May 2012 15:07:23 +0100
Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org> wrote:

> I think in this case you may as well just whitelist BB_NUMBER_THREADS
> from the environment and set that variable there. I'm not seeing a
> huge need for the specific commandline option...

Principle of least astonishment?  I expect things that can run stuff in
parallel to specify that with -j.  Not strongly enough to have submitted
such a patch, but I can see the appeal.

-s
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