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From: Alexander Gretencord <arutha@×××.de>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Why does emerge give up too easily?
Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 18:15:31
Message-Id: 200212021914.29011.arutha@gmx.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] Why does emerge give up too easily? by foser
1 On Sunday 01 December 2002 19:18, foser wrote:
2 > Peter Ruskin wrote:
3 > > My point is that I will probably be able to emerge, for example,
4 > > sane-backends separately, but if the first package in "These are the
5 > > packages that I would merge, in order" fails, the `emerge -u world`
6 > > command is thereafter useless. Why won't it skip failures?
7 >
8 > Because the other packages may still depend on it (eg. Galeon-1.2.7
9 > depends on mozilla-1.2).
10
11 But then portage should be able to check if an ebuild in the chain has the
12 failed package as a dep and only leave those deps and that ebuild alone and
13 merge the rest which does not have a failed package as a dep (or a package
14 that will fail because of the failed dep)
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17 Alex
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21 deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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