From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 2759 invoked by uid 1002); 29 Jul 2003 04:11:55 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 359 invoked from network); 29 Jul 2003 04:11:55 -0000 Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 21:11:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Amiel Martin To: Terje Kvernes cc: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] information about "F" in 'man emerge'? X-Archives-Salt: 2be22c71-03bd-4a3c-a619-ebe308ff70db X-Archives-Hash: 14f6748a6a5ff30a1374caec55495fc4 heres an idea, in the case of an emerge -U world, instead of postponing F-related packages, portage could ask for all of them to be downloaded up front. might require a new variable, but I think that feature would make emerge world's more smooth. just my two cents -AMiel On Tue, 29 Jul 2003, Terje Kvernes wrote: how does this look for the text to explain F? oh, and it would be nice to be able to say "postpone F-related packages" via a switch or something, they make "emerge -U world" break rather annoyingly and await user interaction. I'm sorry for not producing a patch, but I'm not exactly sure where the emerge documentation source is located. :-) [ebuild F ] media-video/realplayer-8-r6 The realplayer ebuild requires you to download sources manually for it to install the package. Instructions on how and what to download is usually given by the package when you attempt to install it. Please not that currently, portage will halt the merge process when it reaches such a package. -- Terje -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list