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 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
