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Dale writes: |
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> Peter Humphrey wrote: |
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>> On Thursday 28 July 2011 21:48:15 Dale wrote: |
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>>> I have wondered that too. The process is sort of started but it's not |
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>>> actually compiling either. I wonder how we could know for sure? |
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>> Easy. "emerge --fetchonly<blah>" first, then start the real work. |
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> But if you emerge something and it has to be fetched first, is that |
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> counted in the time genlop shows or not? That is the question. I don't |
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> think it is counted but I'm not sure. |
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That's what I thought, too, but then I simply tried to be sure. Download |
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time _is_ counted. |
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> I set mine to fetch in the |
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> background so most of the time the fetch is done after a couple packages |
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> gets compiled. |
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What about parallel emerges? I guess genlop will not take this into account. |
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> Back when I was on dial-up, then I would fetch first. I did that |
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> because my dial-up was so slow. It would take days to download OOo or a |
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> major KDE upgrade. |
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We all remember, Dale. We all remember. |
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