the source tarball is kept in /usr/portage/distfiles (in its tarred release format). You can study the "raw" (as in unpatched ) source there by untarring the source tarball.
as others have said, if you want to study the source with whatever patches the ebuild has applied, use "FEATURES=keepwork" On Fri, 2005-05-20 at 17:38 -0700, cfk wrote: > Pardon the slightly naive question. > > I would like to study the c and cpp source on the packages I am emerging. I > *think* they are removed after compilation. I say I *think* as I was looking > in /var/tmp/portage and /usr/portage and didnt find them. > > How do I go about keeping the source for later reference of the various > packages that I emerge with gentoo. > > Charles -- Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list