On Sat, 2012-02-25 at 12:16 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote: > 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". > >
A new one on me ... tkx, added it to my FEATURES! BillK
