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On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 12:16 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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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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A new one on me ... tkx, added it to my FEATURES! |
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BillK |
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