> My guess would be adds the ability to grab packages at the same time > you're compiling; so, grab packages needed to emerge one ebuild, then > while that one is compiling grab the next sources in the background.
That is also my understanding: after the first download, the process forks: 1 for downloading, the other to compile. http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-297712-highlight-parallelfetch.html -- Simon Kellett, | Gentoo Linux, Fvwm, Firefox Darmstadt, Germany | Xemacs, Vm, Gnus -- [email protected] mailing list
