From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=0.8 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_REJECT, MAILING_LIST_MULTI autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from sark.cc.gatech.edu (sark.cc.gatech.edu [130.207.7.23]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C9405AC8B8 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 15:20:57 -0500 (CDT) Received: from marquesas.cc.gatech.edu (marquesas.cc.gatech.edu [130.207.5.11]) by sark.cc.gatech.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3HKKvl26008 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:20:57 -0400 (EDT) Received: from acm.org (w204d122.lawn.gatech.edu [199.77.204.122]) by marquesas.cc.gatech.edu (8.10.2+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id g3HKKvQ22443 for ; Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:20:57 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3CBDD921.60205@acm.org> Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2002 16:20:49 -0400 From: "Chad M. Huneycutt" Organization: Georgia Tech College of Computing User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9) Gecko/20020416 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] download and compile References: <1019061600.3cbda56007c09@grumlygg.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Reply-To: chadh@cc.gatech.edu List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 0e67141a-919c-4546-bff0-4c34acab60ff X-Archives-Hash: b0ef837e7e16123e05b060ebe119f557 Gwenn Gueguen wrote: > Hello, > > I just installed Gentoo on my notebook and everything works fine :-) > > It looks like emerge downloads a package then compile it, and this > for each required package. > > As it can take take some time to download packages, wouldn't it be > great to download a package while compiling another ? > > Maybe there could be a thread to download and one to compile or > is it just a stupid idea ? > That is definitely a good idea, and I would expect it to show up in portage2. Chad (chadh@gentoo.org)