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From: Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] multitasked emerge (download while build ...)
Date: Thu, 06 Dec 2001 11:53:49
Message-Id: 20011206115349.B26917@chiba.3jane.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] multitasked emerge (download while build ...) by jano
1 On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 09:13:07AM -0800, jano wrote:
2 >
3 > I doubt I have to mention this, but for the sake of "being careful" to make
4 > sure the programs downloaded are finished before attempting to compile them.
5 > :) Would it be useful to be able to toggle parallel downloading/compiling?
6 > Only case I can see it helpful would be with a fairly antiquated machine.
7
8 Don't worry; I'll be covering all the bases. You will be able to tune the
9 amount of parallelization you want. The main feature that everyone will
10 probably want to enable is to be able to download the sources for an
11 application that hasn't yet started to compile, since another one is building
12 at the moment.
13
14 Best Regards,
15
16 --
17 Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
18 Chief Architect/President http://www.gentoo.org
19 Gentoo Technologies, Inc.