[gentoo-user] Telling emerge to continue when something goes wrong

[Iván Pérez Domínguez]

Hi,

After installing Gentoo in different machines several times, I wonder if
is there any way to tell emerge to keep installing as much as possible
even when something goes wrong.

Here's an example:

 emerge stuff1 stuff2 stuff3


emerge says "the following packages will be emerged" and so on.

Alright. Then stuff1 fails to compile. I'd like emerge to continue
trying to install stuff2 and stuff3 when possible.

I know I could write several emerges in different lines (something like
emerge stuff1; emerge stuff2; emerge stuff3), I just feel like this
feature should have an option of its own in emerge (i.e.
--keep-going-as-far-as-possible).

This could be very handy when updating world or, in general, when the
emerge is going to take a lot of time and you decide to leave, expecting
everything to be merged when you come back.

I'm posting this here before going to gentoo-portage-dev or other list
to know what you think and to try to write a better suggestion.

Cheers,

Ivan.