Will try. Thanks a lot.
-- Valmor -----Original Message----- From: Matthew Cline [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 23, 2005 12:55 PM To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] list of files to be installed by a package On 8/23/05, de Almeida, Valmor F. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello List, > > Is it possible to find out what are the file names (full path) to be > installed by a package without installing it? > IIRC, it is not possible to get a complete file list without actually compiling the package, because the different USE flags declared change which files will be installed. However, if you are willing to build the package without actually installing it to your system, you can run emerge with the '-B' option to build a binary package. This command creates a .tbz2 archive containing all of the files that would be installed by the package, which you can then browse through. HTH, Matt -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
