On Monday 25 September 2006 17:28, Matias Grana wrote:

> hi,
> Is it possible to get a list of the files an emerge command would
> download?
> I have a dial-up connection at home, so I can't download large files.
> However, I can download them at work, put them on my usb-stick, bring
> them home and put them on my /usr/portage/distfiles/, so I can emerge
> the packages I want. But (there's always a but) sometimes an emerge
> command downloads more than one file for each ebuild. So I would like
> to have a way to know exactly which files the emerge would need, would
> I do something like
> % emerge xxxxx

I think you want emerge -f (or -F).
man emerge for the details.
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