or you can make yourself a wrapper script that, depending on an option calls quickpkg before emerge or not. Even better, not calling emerge, but ebuild - with the different steps, and before merging into filesystem, call quickpkg.
2013/7/29 Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> > On 29/07/2013 21:46, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > On Mon, 29 Jul 2013 15:21:59 +0100, Peter Humphrey wrote: > > > >>> Add FEATURES="buildpkg" to make.conf... > >> > >> That way you'll gradually build up a /usr/portage/packages directory > >> with a package for everything installed. Or if you don't want to wait > >> months for that: > >> > >> # emerge -eB world > > > > It isn't necessary to recompile everything just to build packages of > > them, quickpkg will do that. > > > > > > > Just make sure that quickpkg does what you want with config files... > > been there, done that, made the mistakes :-) > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan.mckin...@gmail.com > > >