Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced?

[Dale]

Alex Schuster wrote:
> Dale writes:
>
>
>> Peter Humphrey wrote:
>>
>>> On Thursday 28 July 2011 21:48:15 Dale wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I have wondered that too.  The process is sort of started but it's not
>>>> actually compiling either.  I wonder how we could know for sure?
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Easy. "emerge --fetchonly<blah>" first, then start the real work.
>>>
>> But if you emerge something and it has to be fetched first, is that
>> counted in the time genlop shows or not?  That is the question.  I don't
>> think it is counted but I'm not sure.
>>
> That's what I thought, too, but then I simply tried to be sure. Download
> time _is_ counted.
>
>
>

Now we know.  If I was on dial-up again, I could sure test that theory.  
3KBs/sec would certainly make a difference.  :-(  Pardon me if I refuse 
to go back tho.  I like youtube to much.


>> I set mine to fetch in the
>> background so most of the time the fetch is done after a couple packages
>> gets compiled.
>>
> What about parallel emerges? I guess genlop will not take this into account.
>

I would think not.  As long as the tarball is downloaded before emerge 
gets to it to compile.  I doubt it would even know how long it took to 
download either.


>
>> Back when I was on dial-up, then I would fetch first.  I did that
>> because my dial-up was so slow.  It would take days to download OOo or a
>> major KDE upgrade.
>>
> We all remember, Dale. We all remember.
>
> 	Wonko
>
>

Yea, me to.  My puny DSL is a lot faster than dial-up.  It's cheaper 
too.  That part is weird.

Dale

:-)  :-)