-f will only fetch the packages that are required by your USE flags. Say you have "-X" in your USE, this might mean that the optional package for X support wont get downloaded. --fetch-all-uri however, will download ALL packages, even if they wouldnt actually be used with your current USE.
On Tue, 2005-03-01 at 18:17 -0500, A. Khattri wrote: > >From the man page for emerge: > > --fetchonly (-f) > Instead of doing any package building, just perform fetches for all > packages (the main package as well as all dependencies). > > --fetch-all-uri (-f) > Instead of doing any package building, just perform fetches for all > packages (the main package as well as all dependencies), grabbing all > potential files." > > > So what is the difference? > > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
