From owner-freebsd-ports Fri Apr 12 4:47:15 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from mail014.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail014.syd.optusnet.com.au [210.49.20.172]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 843BB37B419 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 04:47:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from doorway.homeip.net (c17926.sunsh1.vic.optusnet.com.au [210.49.233.27]) by mail014.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id g3CBl5g01909 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 21:47:05 +1000 Received: from tbird.home.lan (tbird.home.lan [192.168.1.5]) by doorway.homeip.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id g3CBl8x02117 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 21:47:08 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from markhannon@optushome.com.au) Received: from optushome.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by tbird.home.lan (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g3CBl7C60985 for ; Fri, 12 Apr 2002 21:47:08 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from markhannon@optushome.com.au) Message-ID: <3CB6C93B.6693E953@optushome.com.au> Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2002 21:47:07 +1000 From: Mark Hannon X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.79 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.2 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: emerge --pretend equivalent Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi, I have had a little play with the Gentoo linux distribution. One thing that I liked was the emerge --pretend xyz which prints out a list of things the system would do in order to build/install a particular package, including a list of what dependencies it will build. Do we have anything equivalent? Rgds/mark To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message