On Mon, 2005-04-25 at 22:17 +1000, Devraj Mukherjee wrote: > I am not sure if this is the right forum to discuss ideas for emerge, > and for all I know this features may already exists in the current > versions of emerge but I thought I'd take a chance and write down my > idea anyway. > > 1. Emerge with a time delay, so that one can specify big emerge tasks > for say midnight for proper bandwidth usage etc. I know you can do this > with a combination of utilites (such as cron) but it would be neat to > have it as part of emerge. > > 2. Background downloading, of packages while emerge compiles other > packages. For example when I am compiling something huge like GNome, > while a package like GTK is being compiled, emerge should be clever and > download the next package and save time. > > If these ideas are of some use I hope someone can send it to the right > people, and obviously if they require any help with coding (which I am > sure they dont) I am happy to contribute.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] nick $ sudo emerge ideas Calculating dependencies emerge: there are no ebuilds to satisfy "ideas". seriously though, 1. timed events: one off/casual, use "at" regular, cron Although others have said that, its important to know that "This is the unix way" i.e. small programs/daemons chained together. It would be heresy to put timed/regular emergeing into portage, when unix provides at and cron and scripting languages. 2. emergeing with background download. emerge -f[other parameters] world move to another xterm/console emerge [other parameters] world make sure locks are enabled, then if the compiling instance catches up to the downloading instance, it will wait for the download to finish. > > -- > Devraj Mukherjee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Eternity Technologies Pty. Limited > P O Box 5949 Wagga Wagga NSW 2650 Australia > Voice: +61-2-69717131 Fax: +61-2-69251039 > -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
