Devraj Mukherjee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) scribbled: > 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.
most folks will say a solution involving cron/at is sufficient. I agree with that. No need to unnecessarily complicate things. > 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. emerge -fuD world & sleep 5 && emerge -uDav world But that's somewhat hackish. I like the idea, though. Unfortunately, implementation isn't going to be that easy, unless there is a --nodownload flag. otherwise, you'll have to figure out some way to block the emerge process until the file(s) is/are downloaded. > 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. http://bugs.gentoo.org ;-) Cooper. -- [email protected] mailing list
