thats fine, i do it all the time like in one terminal
emerge -uf world wait until a couple have downloaded abd then run emerge -u world in another terminal. the compiling never seems to catch up to the downloading, although that dependent on your machine and your net connection. On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 11:43:44 +1300 Col <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christopher Sawtell wrote: > > >On Sat, 29 Nov 2003 09:38, you wrote: > > > > > >>Is it safe to run more than one instance of the emerge command at once? > >> > >> > >Most of the time, yes. Nasty things might happen if the second one has > >dependencies which are in common with the first. > > > > > > > > > Are you talking about compiling two at once there? > My plan is only to compile one at a time but do some prefetching for the > next one. > ie: > #emerge -f package-one > and when that is finished > #emerge package-one > and > #emerge -f package-two > at the same time > > > Col. > >
