From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org)
	by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60)
	(envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-126357-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>)
	id 1QmZDZ-0000be-Nk
	for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:38:13 +0000
Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 29CA421C1F2;
	Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:37:51 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from mx.virtyou.com (mx.virtyou.com [94.23.166.77])
	by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A11521C0F0
	for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:36:24 +0000 (UTC)
Received: from [192.168.2.43] (p5B2750ED.dip.t-dialin.net [91.39.80.237])
	(using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-CAMELLIA256-SHA (256/256 bits))
	(Client did not present a certificate)
	by mx.virtyou.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 2491639A028
	for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:36:23 +0200 (CEST)
Message-ID: <4E31E48C.8070806@wonkology.org>
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:37:00 +0200
From: Alex Schuster <wonko@wonkology.org>
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:5.0) Gecko/20110624 Thunderbird/5.0
Precedence: bulk
List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>
List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org>
List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org>
List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org>
X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Openoffice being replaced?
References: <4E316E93.7010603@gmail.com> <CAEH5T2NuaL92LFyNcFD+M=LaLX3cjXrrJ-hQaj_vLqmPACOOrg@mail.gmail.com> <4E31CB0F.3030200@gmail.com> <201107282202.13462.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> <4E31D390.5050806@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4E31D390.5050806@gmail.com>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Archives-Salt: 
X-Archives-Hash: a2fff69184046aec116ceda6113489e3

Dale writes:

> Peter Humphrey wrote:
>> On Thursday 28 July 2011 21:48:15 Dale wrote:
>>    
>>> I have wondered that too.  The process is sort of started but it's not
>>> actually compiling either.  I wonder how we could know for sure?
>>>      
>> Easy. "emerge --fetchonly<blah>" first, then start the real work.
> 
> But if you emerge something and it has to be fetched first, is that 
> counted in the time genlop shows or not?  That is the question.  I don't 
> think it is counted but I'm not sure.

That's what I thought, too, but then I simply tried to be sure. Download
time _is_ counted.


> I set mine to fetch in the 
> background so most of the time the fetch is done after a couple packages 
> gets compiled.

What about parallel emerges? I guess genlop will not take this into account.

> Back when I was on dial-up, then I would fetch first.  I did that 
> because my dial-up was so slow.  It would take days to download OOo or a 
> major KDE upgrade.

We all remember, Dale. We all remember.

	Wonko