Yeah, I know I can download all of the packages that it needs and put them in/usr/portage/distfiles but first I have to find out WHAT packages it wants to just install.
Gentoo has that feature. Use the --pretend argument. For instance "emerge --pretend kde" on my machine would display...
Calculating dependencies...done!
[ebuild N ] sys-libs/lib-compat-1.0-r2
[ebuild N ] sys-devel/ld.so-1.9.11-r2
[ebuild U ] x11-libs/qt-3.0.5-r2
[ebuild N ] net-print/cups-1.1.15-r2
[ebuild N ] media-gfx/gimp-print-4.2.1
[ebuild N ] app-text/ghostscript-7.05.5
[ebuild N ] net-nds/portmap-5b-r6
[ebuild N ] app-admin/fam-oss-2.6.9
and so on.
Plus I'm in one of the far corners of the world (Santa Fe, NM) that DOESN'T have broadband everywhere so I have to do all this downloading over dial up.
Remember, you are downloading the source, which is a fraction the size of a binary. Having dialup instead of broadband is a better reason to use gentoo instead of another distro.
"Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.
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Gentoo has that feature. Use the --pretend argument. For instance "emerge --pretend kde" on my machine would display ...
Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild N ] sys-libs/lib-compat-1.0-r2
[ebuild N ] sys-devel/ld.so-1.9.11-r2
[ebuild U ] x11-libs/qt-3.0.5-r2
[ebuild N ] net-print/cups-1.1.15-r2
[ebuild N ] media-gfx/gimp-print-4.2.1
[ebuild N ] app-text/ghostscript-7.05.5
[ebuild N ] net-nds/portmap-5b-r6
[ebuild N ] app-admin/fam-oss-2.6.9
and so on.
Plus I'm in one of the far corners of the world (Santa Fe, NM) that DOESN'T have broadband everywhere so I have to do all this downloading over dial up.
Remember, you are downloading the source, which is a fraction the size of a binary. Having dialup instead of broadband is a better reason to use gentoo instead of another distro.
Documentation for alternative installation methods are availible on the gentoo website.
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/altinstall.html
I thought this might be useful.
"Unison is a file-synchronization tool for Unix and Windows. It allows two replicas of a collection of files and directories to be stored on different hosts (or different disks on the same host), modified separately, and then brought up to date by propagating the changes in each replica to the other.
http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/