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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Important bug/feature request for OFFLINE gentoo users
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 14:22:36
Message-Id: 200403020922.31020.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Important bug/feature request for OFFLINE gentoo users by Xavier Neys
1 On Tuesday 02 March 2004 08:14 am, Xavier Neys wrote:
2 > Emerge does behave properly in this case.
3 > The problem is that you mistakenly interpret --pretend --fetchonly as
4 > "pretend to fetch". --pretend will list the packages that would be emerged,
5 > --fetchonly either lists the required files or downloads them.
6 > This is very handy to know which files would be required and to write your
7 > own scripts to check whether you already have them.
8 >
9 > Behaviour should not change IMHO.
10
11 agreed ... maybe reporter should read about the '-nc' option in wget since
12 chances are, that's the app they're using to download files with
13 -mike
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