On Sep 15, 2011 1:53 PM, "Neil Bothwick" <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Wed, 14 Sep 2011 17:07:45 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Anyway, it works well for this old dog, and in my mind there is a good > > reason to fetch before building but I can see how others might not > > want to do that. > > I use it too, but for a different reason. I run emerge --sync from a cron > script, followed by emerge -f world, so all the tarballs are downloaded > before I even start. >
Indeed, great minds think alike, for that's my setup. Daily eix-sync + emerge -f. When I feel like it, I'll just do emerge -avuD -j4 --load-average=8.0 @world No pipeline stall due to needing to download a largish tarball. Rgds,
