Re: [gentoo-user] emerge source code but don't build?

[Mark Knecht]

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 9:53 AM, Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org> wrote:
> Mark Knecht writes:
>
>>    Is there an option in emerge to download and create the source code
>> tree for an application, but then stop at that point, don't build the
>> app and leave the source code tree in place so that I can look at it?
>
> Probably not. But you can use the ebuild command:
>
> ebuild /path/to/category/package.ebuild unpack
>
> Read the man page, I'm not sure if things like fetching will be done when
> necessary.
>
>        Wonko
>
>

Thanks Wonko and you too Neil.

Cheers,
Mark