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From: Wayne Pascoe <freebsd@penguinpowered.org.uk>
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On Wed, Apr 16, 2003 at 05:12:30PM +0200, Jalle wrote:
> Hi, I'm wondering if there's any way to fetch the sources (tarballs, gzips, 
> bzips etc) for a port, including it's dependencies, without installing the 
> whole thing right away?
> I could, of course, check http://www.freebsd.org/ports and see what the 
> requirements are, download these, see what the requirements for the 
> requirements are, download there, see what the... (you get it right?) But 
> for a rather large port (like KDE, which I happened to have in mind) this 
> would take ages!

In the port directory, make fetch will fetch the sources. 

I'm not sure how this works for meta ports like KDE, Gnome and X11. I'm
also not sure if this will recurse and fetch ports for dependency apps.

-- 
Wayne Pascoe