Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me?
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 13:48:08
Message-Id: 4F48E60D.30908@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Is Gentoo for me? by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick wrote:
2 > On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:56:27 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
3 >
4 >> Use "emerge -f package_list" to download into the distfiles directory
5 >> files well ahead of when the "emerge package_list" will need them ...
6 >> there is no need to waste time waiting for compilation to finish and
7 >> letting the bandwidth go to waste.
8 >
9 > Portage has done parallel downloads for years, it no longer waits for one
10 > package to finish installing before starting to download the next. It's
11 > controlled by FEATURES="parallel-fetch".
12 >
13 >
14
15 Yep, I might add, when upgrading KDE, download everything first then
16 start the emerge. KDE doesn't like mixing versions sometimes. It can
17 get a bit weird.
18
19 Dale
20
21 :-) :-)
22
23 --
24 I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or
25 how you interpreted my words!
26
27 Miss the compile output? Hint:
28 EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"