On Thursday 20 December 2007 02:46:20 Iain Buchanan wrote: > > And the recent addition of the option '--continue-on-failure' won me > > over all over again. :) > > I've been wondering for a long time why portage doesn't continue with > building other packages when one fails - so long as deps are met why > stop?
Because the current resolver in Portage isn't powerfull enough to know if the deps are met. > Acutally, while I'm on the subject of features - here's another one I'd > like to see: parallel merges instead of parallel makes. It's planned (both for Portage and Paludis). For Portage there's even a bug with a patch which isn't considered suitable for inclusion in Portage. -- Bo Andresen
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