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On Wed, Sep 14, 2011 at 6:46 PM, Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> There's not point in doing the fetch first, portage has done parallel |
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> fetching for some time - it's faster to let the distfiles download while |
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> the first package is compiling. |
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Speed is not always the biggest concern to me. For example, an |
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advantage of fetching separately is the compile times in genlop are |
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more accurate because they don't include fetch time, which can vary |
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wildly. |
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If fetch-only is done unattended, and there's a really slow mirror, |
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the interactive emerge later will still be fast, where if using |
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parallel-fetch and you hit a slow download, you just have to wait, or |
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bring up the fetch log in another terminal and kill the wget session |
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etc. |
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The good thing is there are options and we can all do i the way we prefer. :) |
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