Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: Wayne Vovil <wayne.vovil@××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: RE: [gentoo-dev] download and compile
Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 22:27:45
Message-Id: 200204210327.g3L3Rhw20221@mail21.bigmailbox.com
1 Hi
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3 Sound like a good idea to me. Downloading is I/O intensive, while compiling is CPU intensive.
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5 cheers
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7 wayne
8 Perth, Western Australia
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10 > Gwenn Gueguen <gwenn.gueguen@×××××××××××.fr> gentoo-dev@g.o [gentoo-dev] download and compileReply-To: gentoo-dev@g.o
11 >Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 18:40:00 +0200
12 >
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14 >Hello,
15 >
16 >I just installed Gentoo on my notebook and everything works fine :-)
17 >
18 >It looks like emerge downloads a package then compile it, and this
19 >for each required package.
20 >
21 >As it can take take some time to download packages, wouldn't it be
22 >great to download a package while compiling another ?
23 >
24 >Maybe there could be a thread to download and one to compile or
25 >is it just a stupid idea ?
26 >
27 >--
28 >Gwenn
29 >
30 >
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