>Do you prefetch all the required source first?
>
>eg:
># emerge -uDpv world
>from the result you can estimate the download time.
># emerge -uDf world
>then disconnect
># emerge -uD world
>
>Also if you can get your timing right, you can prefetch and compile in
>different terminals at the same time.
>
>
Mostly I prefetch. But I never disconct. I added wvdial to the default
runlevel, so that I only connect when starting the computer and
disconnect when shutting it down. I have a flat-rate and I almost never
use my phone, so that is the easiest way to do it. There is one very
nice package called getdelta. Unfortunatly it does not work with amd64
yet. At the moment I mostly do two jobs at the same time: e.g.: "emerge
-uD world" in one terminal and "emerge firefox" in another. There was
also somwhere a nice tip/howto about downloading and compiling at the
same time, but I can't find it anymore. Anyway most things are done
after a night .
Happy Hacking,
Robert Himmelmann
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody
wants to read.
-- Mark Twain
"Murphy's Law, that brash proletarian restatement of G�del's Theorem ..."
-- Thomas Pynchon, "Gravity's Rainbow"
