[gentoo-user] emerge ideas

[Devraj Mukherjee]

I am not sure if this is the right forum to discuss ideas for emerge, 
and for all I know this features may already exists in the current 
versions of emerge but I thought I'd take a chance and write down my 
idea anyway.

1. Emerge with a time delay, so that one can specify big emerge tasks 
for say midnight for proper bandwidth usage etc. I know you can do this 
with a combination of utilites (such as cron) but it would be neat to 
have it as part of emerge.

2. Background downloading, of packages while emerge compiles other 
packages. For example when I am compiling something huge like GNome, 
while a package like GTK is being compiled, emerge should be clever and 
download the next package and save time.

If these ideas are of some use I hope someone can send it to the right 
people, and obviously if they require any help with coding (which I am 
sure they dont) I am happy to contribute.

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