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On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:56:27 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: |
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> Use "emerge -f package_list" to download into the distfiles directory |
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> files well ahead of when the "emerge package_list" will need them ... |
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> there is no need to waste time waiting for compilation to finish and |
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> letting the bandwidth go to waste. |
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Portage has done parallel downloads for years, it no longer waits for one |
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package to finish installing before starting to download the next. It's |
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controlled by FEATURES="parallel-fetch". |
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Neil Bothwick |
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Velilind's Laws of Experimentation: |
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1. If reproducibility may be a problem, conduct the test only once. |
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2. If a straight line fit is required, obtain only two data points. |
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