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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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Yep, I might add, when upgrading KDE, download everything first then |
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start the emerge. KDE doesn't like mixing versions sometimes. It can |
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get a bit weird. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or |
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how you interpreted my words! |
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Miss the compile output? Hint: |
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EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n" |