On 03/29/2015 02:06 AM, Franz Fellner wrote: >> >> Yeah, but I have to be in the directory where the ebuild lives for that >> to work. `emerge foo` works anywhere. It's also more flexible -- if I >> want the *unpatched* files, I just Ctrl-C earlier =) > > The ebuild-command works from every directory (at least for me ;)), you don't > need to be inside > the directory where the ebuild lives.
Well, yeah, but you have to give it the full path then: $ ebuild /var/cache/portage/repositories/gentoo/sys-process/xjobs/xjobs-20140125.ebuild prepare $ emerge xjobs ^C Ain't nobody got time for that =)