On Wednesday 15 October 2003 13:05, Stephen Liu wrote:
> Hi Jason,
>
> Jason Stubbs wrote:
> >> - snip -
> >>
> >>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.
>
> Kindly advise whether there are no precompile KDE and X-free available
> on Gentoo and its mirror sites.

As far as I know (which is not very far) the only precompiled KDE and xfree 
packages are stored within the livecd isos. You can always ftp to oregonstate 
and browse around.

Jason

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