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Pandu Poluan wrote:
>
>
> There's an incantation that makes emerge download the source files but
> don't actually emerge them, yet. Will save a lot of time during
> attended sessions if your Internet connection is kind of not fast.
>
> Can someone help me refresh my mind?
>
> Rgds,
>

That would be the -f option.  Short for fetch. 

Dale

:-)  :-) 

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