Dale writes:
> Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> On Thursday 28 July 2011 21:48:15 Dale wrote:
>>
>>> I have wondered that too. The process is sort of started but it's not
>>> actually compiling either. I wonder how we could know for sure?
>>>
>> Easy. "emerge --fetchonly<blah>" first, then start the real work.
>
> But if you emerge something and it has to be fetched first, is that
> counted in the time genlop shows or not? That is the question. I don't
> think it is counted but I'm not sure.
That's what I thought, too, but then I simply tried to be sure. Download
time _is_ counted.
> I set mine to fetch in the
> background so most of the time the fetch is done after a couple packages
> gets compiled.
What about parallel emerges? I guess genlop will not take this into account.
> Back when I was on dial-up, then I would fetch first. I did that
> because my dial-up was so slow. It would take days to download OOo or a
> major KDE upgrade.
We all remember, Dale. We all remember.
Wonko
