On 2010-04-17 6:06 PM, Vincent Launchbury wrote: > On 04/17/10 17:09, Tanstaafl wrote: >> On 2010-04-17 4:59 PM, Tanstaafl wrote: >>> emerge system -gcc (where '-gcc' serves to tell portage to compile >>> everything *but* gcc)?
>> Of course I meant: >> >> emerge -e system -gcc > You could try temporarily masking it: > #echo sys-devel/gcc >> /etc/portage/package.mask > > Then updating: > #emerge -e system > > Then removing the mask: > #sed -i '$d' /etc/portage/package.mask > > I don't know of any emerge flag that does this in one step. Hmmm, good idea, thanks Vincent... I just don't see any reason to recompile gcc so many times (system and then again when I do world), when its already been recompiled with itself... -- Charles