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Bug 122811 - Download packages before emerging them
Summary: Download packages before emerging them
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Core - Interface (emerge) (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High enhancement
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2006-02-14 09:28 UTC by Charles Christie
Modified: 2006-02-14 09:32 UTC (History)
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Description Charles Christie 2006-02-14 09:28:04 UTC
You should add an option that lets people download all of the package dependencies before they are installed. It would really help durring times that you are using somebody else's internet connection and you only have a little time to use it, like at school or a business or something.
Comment 1 Andrew Gaffney (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-02-14 09:32:47 UTC
From `man emerge`:

       --fetchonly (-f)
              Instead of doing any package building, just perform fetches  for
              all packages (the main package as well as all dependencies).