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From: "jim@××××××××.gr" <jim@××××××××.gr>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge"
Date: Sun, 20 Feb 2022 22:12:59
Message-Id: EE8E2D75-09FD-4CB8-B786-9ECAA1519965@clusters.gr
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge" by Michael Orlitzky
1 Pardon me, but how would using --nodeps be a wise choice to rebuild your @world?
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4 > 21/2/22 v 0:06, Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>:
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6 > On Sun, 2022-02-20 at 19:51 +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
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8 >> Shouldn't --keep-going have kicked in there and restarted the update?
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11 > You'd think, but --keep-going tries to recompute dependencies and if
12 > the original emerge crashes in an inconsistent state, that often seems
13 > to push the calculation over the edge, preventing portage from figuring
14 > out how to proceed.
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16 > In my half-baked imagination,
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18 > emerge --i-dont-care -uDN @world
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20 > would build the package list normally, but then would go through them
21 > one at a time as if "emerge -1 --nodeps" was used for each. So once we
22 > know that the package list *can* be emerged in that order -- just do
23 > it, and don't try to think again.
24 >
25 >
26 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] Options for "emerge" Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o>