[ale] Gentoo - emerge --how-big <package>

[Charles Marcus]

> From: Joseph A. Knapka
> Sent: Wednesday, August 21, 2002 4:02 PM
>
> I'd like to be able to figure out how much "stuff" an
> emerge is going to install, in terms of Mbytes, without
> actually doing the emerge.
>
> For example, I've got a machine here that has a smallish
> disk. I've got no X stuff installed at the moment, and
> I want to use one of the Big 2, Gnome or KDE. Whichever
> one is smaller, including all its dependencies. So
> far, "du ; emerge --fetchonly <package> ; du ; emerge
> unmerge <package>" seems to work, but... ugh. Is there
> a better way?

Hmmmm. Good question.  I've never seen any flags that would do that.  Did
you 'man emerge', and 'emerge --help'?

If you are not a subscriber to the support list, I'll post the question for
you and post the reply here if you like.

Charles


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