On Tuesday 14 October 2003 10:36 am, Stephen Liu wrote: > Hi Hall, > > Thanks for your advice. > > > At 10:56 AM 10/13/2003, you wrote: > >> 1) > >> # emerge -k kde > >> > >> 2) > >> # emerge -k xfree > > > > As I understand gentoo and emerge (been using it less than a week), > > the "-k" will get pre-compiled packages and will NOT compile them. > > Whether I should remove "-k" > > # emerge xfree > > will download, compile and install the package. > > B.R. > Stephen > Hmmm. I must misunderstand something. I've been doing emerge -f "packagexxx" and it downloads the source file and deps to /usr/portage/distfiles. Then I do emerge -k "packagexxx" and it then compiles the source package and any deps.
I use -f because I'm on 56k dialup- it's slow, but it works. Robert Crawford -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
