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From: Nikos Chantziaras <realnc@×××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to make portage use "puf" instead of "wget"
Date: Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:45:31
Message-Id: hggi70$7p9$1@ger.gmane.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Trying to make portage use "puf" instead of "wget" by Ronan Mainbourg
1 On 12/18/2009 05:40 PM, Ronan Mainbourg wrote:
2 > Because my Internet connection is not very fast, I'd like to make
3 > portage fetch files using net-misc/puf (wich can dl several chunks of a
4 > file at the same time) instead of wget.
5
6 You got it backwards. Downloading more than one chunk at the same time
7 is only useful on *fast* connections, not *slow* ones.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Trying to make portage use "puf" instead of "wget" Marcus Wanner <marcusw@×××.net>