Sigurd Stordal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> 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 three,
> so you could take it with you and install on a computer without
> internet access.

If you are well fitted with disk space, you could just use the
mirroring feature of wget to suck down the complete contents of the
remote distfiles directory. Then burn it on some CDs and voila - there
you are.

I won't discuss to the social aspect of such behaviour here :-)

> Another nice thing would be if there was a way to tell emerge to
> delete the distfile after the package was build. For those of us
> with little space, this might make it easier and prevent emerge
> builds from stop do to insufficient disk space.

What about a cron job for this?

Generally I think that a system centric tool like emerge should not be
bloated with features which are on the one hand useful in < 1% of all
use cases and on the other hand can be done with supplementary tools.

Regards, Ulf

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