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From:	Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
To:	gentoo-dev@××××××××××.org
Subject:	Re: [gentoo-dev] feature request: emerge --fetchonly
Date:	Fri, 17 Aug 2001 11:05:39
Message-Id:	`20010817110539.N5029@cvs.gentoo.org`
In Reply to:	[gentoo-dev] feature request: emerge --fetchonly by Peter Kadau

1	On Fri, Aug 17, 2001 at 01:10:05PM +0200, Peter Kadau wrote:
2	> hi !
3	>
4	> i'd like to fetch in one swoop.
5	> this is extremely nice when you have a dialup-connection.
6	>
7	> so calculating the deps and fetch every source needed, is what i mean.
8	> proposal: --fetchonly option to emerge.
9
10	OK; this is a great idea, so I've added it to emerge. A --fetchonly-enabled
11	emerge will show up on rsync in 45 minutes (it's on CVS now). You'll need to
12	merge or remerge Portage 1.5.4 for it to be installed.
13
14	Great idea!
15
16	Best Regards,
17
18	--
19	Daniel Robbins <drobbins@g.o>
20	Chief Architect/President http://www.gentoo.org
21	Gentoo Technologies, Inc.