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Subject: [gentoo-user]  Re: Trying to make portage use "puf" instead of "wget"
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On 12/18/2009 05:40 PM, Ronan Mainbourg wrote:
> Because my Internet connection is not very fast, I'd like to make
> portage fetch files using net-misc/puf (wich can dl several chunks of a
> file at the same time) instead of wget.

You got it backwards.  Downloading more than one chunk at the same time 
is only useful on *fast* connections, not *slow* ones.