* On Apr 25 22:17, Devraj Mukherjee ([email protected]) wrote: > 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.
I know you're discussing things that could be usefully integrated into portage, but sys-process/at is *exactly* the tool for this job, much more suitable than cron. It's designed for one-time jobs like this. > 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. This is one of the longest requested features in portage, see: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1661 (bug 1661!) I believe some work has been put into this recently, and it became even easier after the distlocks FEATURE was added (and parallel-fetch is coming soon). Tom
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