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From: Mikael Hallendal <hallski@g.o>
To: "Gentoo Dev." <gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] feature request: emerge --fetchonly
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 06:32:48
Message-Id: 998051421.6951.19.camel@fry
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] feature request: emerge --fetchonly by Peter Kadau
1 Den 17 Aug 2001 13:10:05 +0200 skrev Peter Kadau:
2 > hi !
3 >
4 > i'd like to fetch in one swoop.
5 > this is extremely nice when you have a dialup-connection.
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7 This sound like something good for this yes. Another way might be to
8 first fetch the sources (when doing an emerge) and when everything is
9 received start compiling. This way a user could disconnect when the
10 files are on the disk.
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12 Perhaps this is hard to implement and wouldn't fill enough needs, just
13 brainstorming here :)
14
15 Regards,
16 Mikael Hallendal
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20 Mikael Hallendal
21 Gentoo Linux Developer, Desktop Team Leader
22 Stockholm, Sweden