> Looks like you setup a local mirror with your tarballs in it then emerge > -ef (where -e means "reinstall everything in world and their dependencies" > and -f means "just fetch the tarballs"), and then you remove the local > repository and the old tarballs directory (since you've just fetched > everything you need to build world into /etc/portage/distfiles). > > So basically you're pruning out old stuff that is not needed from > /etc/portage/distfiles.
Ok, I see now. I wasn't grasping the part where the "emerge -ef world" was grabbing distfiles from the local system, not another mirror. Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
