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On Wednesday 25 September 2002 16:20, Ken Conroy wrote: |
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> especially without the help of a download manager that supports |
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> resume (not sure if Portage does or doesn't, but I doubt it) |
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Portage by default uses wget to donwload stuff which can and does resume your |
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downloads, what it does not (yet) do is download the next needed package |
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while you are compiling the current one. |
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> In addition, it'll simplify things a lot for those who just want to pull |
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> the packages via a friend's connection onto a CD, and stuff like that. |
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Well you can do that but it takes some time as you will have to find out what |
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tarballs an ebuild wants and then dl them on your friends pc. |
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> Saddest of all, in the time it takes to build a system on a dialup |
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> connection, it's outdated. |
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Of course you shouldn't do an emerge rsync before you at least merged the |
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packages which you got the tarballs for on the cd :) |
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Alex |
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-- |
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"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety |
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deserve neither liberty nor safety." |
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Benjamin Franklin |
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