Mark Knecht writes: > Is there an option in emerge to download and create the source code > tree for an application, but then stop at that point, don't build the > app and leave the source code tree in place so that I can look at it?
Probably not. But you can use the ebuild command:
ebuild /path/to/category/package.ebuild unpack
Read the man page, I'm not sure if things like fetching will be done when
necessary.
Wonko
