On 10/06/2014 12:36, thegeezer wrote: >> +1 to just letting portage work with world. >> > >> > What I have found useful when trying to do what Alan is attempting, is >> > to select a chunk of packages at a time (like say all of kde, then a >> > bunch of daemons). If I get a block, drop it and try the next chunk. > you might also like to know about my favourite flag "keep-going", which > drops the failed emerge and goes to the next non-dependent on what failed. > emerge -uDNa --keep-going >
I know about --keep-going, I don't like it much. It's also a different topic, what's being mentioned here is how to get past the bit where portage fails to give an emerge list due to blockers. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
