Re: [gentoo-user] Strange portage behaviour

[Peter Humphrey]

On Monday, 3 August 2020 23:01:07 BST Peter Humphrey wrote:
> On Monday, 3 August 2020 20:15:45 BST Rich Freeman wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 3:01 PM Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
wrote:
> > > On Monday, 3 August 2020 14:18:22 BST Rich Freeman wrote:
> > > > Sounds like you want --usepkgonly y --binpkg-respect-use y  (the first
> > > > is the same as -K).  At least, I think that is what you're getting at
> > > > - I could be misunderstanding your goal.
> > >
> > > Not exactly. I'm finding that emerge -K installs every package whose
> > > binpkg
> > > exists, regardless of whether it's installed in the system already.
> > > Emerge
> > > -k doesn't. Neither of them takes any notice of what packages are
> > > installed in the system, and I think they should.
> >
> > -k/K have nothing to do with package selection - just the use of
> > binary packages.
> >
> > If you run emerge @core then anything in @core should get installed.
> > Adding -K or -k will either allow or force the use of binary packages,
> > but it shouldn't cause stuff that isn't in @core to get installed
> > unless it is a dependency.
>
> That's exactly the problem. It does.

Well, I don't know what's going on. Today it all works perfectly.

Sorry about the noise.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.