Re: [gentoo-user] Well, I went about updating my system again. (day 6)

[Thanasis]

On 12/07/2016 04:28 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Wed, 7 Dec 2016 16:14:35 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
>>> I do not know what quickpkg is.
>>
>> Makes a tarball of a package so you can later untar it and get the
>> package back without a remerge. It's all in portage's man pages
>
> While you can untar it, that's a bit messy, and has caused problems for
> me in the past (overwriting the /lib symlink with a directory.

There is an option for tar, to *not overwrite* a symlinked directory, I 
think it's *h*