Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Chad M. Huneycutt" <chad.huneycutt@×××.org>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] download and compile
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 15:20:57
Message-Id: 3CBDD921.60205@acm.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] download and compile by Gwenn Gueguen
1 Gwenn Gueguen wrote:
2 > Hello,
3 >
4 > I just installed Gentoo on my notebook and everything works fine :-)
5 >
6 > It looks like emerge downloads a package then compile it, and this
7 > for each required package.
8 >
9 > As it can take take some time to download packages, wouldn't it be
10 > great to download a package while compiling another ?
11 >
12 > Maybe there could be a thread to download and one to compile or
13 > is it just a stupid idea ?
14 >
15
16 That is definitely a good idea, and I would expect it to show up in portage2.
17
18 Chad (chadh@g.o)