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stefan.ciobaca
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 9:38 pm    Post subject: Simple emerge improvement Reply with quote

I have a (seemingly) simple improvement idea for emerge. Why aren't the downloads made in parallel with the compilation process? I assume it wouldn't be very difficult to do, and it has the potential to improve emerge speed quite a bit, especially for slower connections. What do you think?
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 04, 2006 9:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

just add ...
Code:
FEATURES="parallel-fetch"

...to your /etc/make.conf to make use of that feature. :wink:

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PostPosted: Tue Dec 05, 2006 3:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Moved from Portage & Programming to Duplicate Threads.

See https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=30842
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