FEATURES="parallel-fetch". If file not downloaded during emerge'ing, it starts downloading in background. Request for enabling downloading without backgrounding.
"Request for enabling downloading without backgrounding." So, you want FEATURES="-parallel-fetch" ? You simply have two options, to download many files in a row in the background (while something is compiling) *OR* you download the files in the foreground when they are requested. This is toggled with that parallel-fetch setting. I'm tempted to close this as invalid but I'm not on the portage team. Please explain in more detail what you are requesting. thx
As I understand it, the idea is to have "fetching show in the foreground whenever there's nothing else interesting going on". Of course, it would only apply to someone who isn't using --quiet or --jobs > 1.
Zmedico is right.