On Wednesday 15 October 2003 04:17, Robert Crawford wrote: > 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.
-f download files required to compile/install -k install from packages or compile/install from source if no package exists -K install from packages or skip if no package exists Portage's functionality has been extended to allow downloading prebuilt packages from mirrors but there are no mirrors hosting such packages at this stage. Jason -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
