On Fri, 12 Oct 2012 04:35:43 +0000 (UTC) jb wrote: > Hi, > what is the diff between > --index > and > --index-only From a *very* quick look, it appears that --index-only means don't use the the port-directory at all, so that the index file is downloaded into /tmp, and some checks and optimizations are skipped or done less efficiently.