Is -j safe to use when building or updating ports?

[Garrett Cooper]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 10:02 AM, Mark Linimon <linimon at lonesome.com> wrote:
> 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

There's also a race condition possibility with pkg_add and the files
in /var/db/pkg that still hasn't been worked out yet.
-Garrett