Like most admin's I'm extremely paranoid about connecting a machine to the Internet before I've finished installing/configuring everything so *naturally* I prefer to... * keep all my distfiles on a separate partition so that I don't have to download them again when I re-install, * download the distfiles *before* emerge'ing them. So, I'd like the ability to only download the distfiles that I need instead of downloading them fresh -every-time-. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
I know that emerge checks the distfile directory when actually downloading distfiles but it would also be nice if emerge would do this when the --practice flag is set.
maybe i missed something but whats wrong with `emerge -f <pkg>`
What's wrong with being able to --practice first?
so all you want is to have portage tell you whether or not you have all the files required for a specific emerge ? instead of adding a --practice why not use -pf ... that is do a pretend fetch ... portage would show all the files you have and files that would be fetched
I don't see any difference between emerge -f / emerge -pf and your --practice flag, closing this now.
