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". > >
Yep, I might add, when upgrading KDE, download everything first then start the emerge. KDE doesn't like mixing versions sometimes. It can get a bit weird. Dale :-) :-) -- I am only responsible for what I said ... Not for what you understood or how you interpreted my words! Miss the compile output? Hint: EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--quiet-build=n"
