5868 – feature request: background downloads when merging multiple packages.

Bug 5868 - feature request: background downloads when merging multiple packages.

Summary: feature request: background downloads when merging multiple packages.

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1661

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2002-08-01 14:23 UTC by Sloan Poe
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:38 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Sloan Poe 2002-08-01 14:23:07 UTC

It seems like it could save time (especially for those on modems) if emerge
would go ahead and download pending packages to be merged while the current
package was compiling.

Comment 1 Nicholas Jones (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-08-04 01:38:37 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 1661 ***