On Sat, 12 Nov 2011 14:14:33 +0100, Florian Philipp wrote: > Disadvantages? I'm unsure how portage will handle cases when two > machines fetch the same file at the same time.
In my experience concurrent/overlapping fetches work just fine, thanks to portage's lock file. The second potential downloader just waits or does something else in the meantime. -h
