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

[Joseph A. Knapka]

Charles Marcus wrote:
> 
> > 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'?

Oh, absolutely. Never *ever* would I risk exposing my
precious hide to the toasty flames of ALE without
doing at least a bit of research first! :-))
 
> 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.

I was only trying Gentoo out of idle curiosity, but as
it seems I like it enough to keep it around, I ought
to subscribe to the support list. I'll just do that.

Thanks,

-- Joe
  "I'd rather chew my leg off than maintain Java code, which
   sucks, 'cause I have a lot of Java code to maintain and
   the leg surgery is starting to get expensive." - Me

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