On Thu, Jul 28, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. I set mine to fetch in the background so most of > the time the fetch is done after a couple packages gets compiled. > > 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.
I use parallel fetch, so it downloads int he background while it's emerging the first package, but if there's only one package being emerged it has no choice but to wait.
