HI to all: I think that a new feature to portage should be concurrent download. I will try to explain with an example: Now, when you do: emerge foo, this is the sequence. download foodependence1 compile foodependence1 download foodependence2 compile foodependence2 download foodependence3 compile foodependence3 I think that should be faster; download foodependence1 compile foodependence1 AND download foodependence2 compile foodependence2 AND download foodependence3 compile foodependence3 Thats is, while emerge is compiling, it could be able to download the next file. ...to save time. Thanks, and sorry for my poor english.
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