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Date:      Mon, 13 May 2002 15:14:28 +0200
From:      Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr>
To:        Nik Clayton <nik@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        "chat@freebsd.org" <chat@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Finally a Linux with a ports collection
Message-ID:  <20020513151428.A55614@lpt.ens.fr>
In-Reply-To: <20020509073749.A83030@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>; from nik@FreeBSD.ORG on Thu, May 09, 2002 at 07:37:49AM %2B0100
References:  <3CD9354E.41CBCEF6@pythonemproject.com> <20020508164424.H30997@lpt.ens.fr> <20020509073749.A83030@canyon.nothing-going-on.org>

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Nik Clayton said on May  9, 2002 at 07:37:49:
> On Wed, May 08, 2002 at 04:44:24PM +0200, Rahul Siddharthan wrote:
> > 5.  You can do the equivalent of "make fetch" which will fetch all the
> > source files, not only for your required ebuild, but for its
> > dependencies too.  So you could do the downloading at work and the
> > compiling at home, for example.
> 
>     make fetch-recursive

Hm, just tried it.   It goes and fetches distfiles for *all*
dependencies, whether already installed or not.  Is there anything
which will fetch only what actually needs to be installed?

R

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