On Sat, 25 Feb 2012 19:56:27 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote: > Use "emerge -f package_list" to download into the distfiles directory > files well ahead of when the "emerge package_list" will need them ... > there is no need to waste time waiting for compilation to finish and > letting the bandwidth go to waste.
Portage has done parallel downloads for years, it no longer waits for one package to finish installing before starting to download the next. It's controlled by FEATURES="parallel-fetch". -- Neil Bothwick Velilind's Laws of Experimentation: 1. If reproducibility may be a problem, conduct the test only once. 2. If a straight line fit is required, obtain only two data points.
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