On February 13, 2003 08:49 am, Sigurd Stordal wrote:
> I'm thinking that it would have been nice to have a --all switch in emerge
> so you could get all packages. This would be useful together with the
> --fetch switch to get all the files for the portage tree, so you could
> take it with you and install on a computer without internet access.

i would think you could just do something like:

  # emerge --fetchonly --emptytree <all packages you'd want in the new system>

and then just burn those packages to an installer cd along with a stage-x 
tarball.

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