From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 28874 invoked by uid 1002); 2 Dec 2002 18:15:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 28862 invoked from network); 2 Dec 2002 18:15:31 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" From: Alexander Gretencord To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Mon, 2 Dec 2002 19:14:28 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.4.2 References: <200212011228.49652.aoyu93@dsl.pipex.com> <200212011819.21739.aoyu93@dsl.pipex.com> <3DEA5271.2000002@foser.warande.net> In-Reply-To: <3DEA5271.2000002@foser.warande.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <200212021914.29011.arutha@gmx.de> Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Why does emerge give up too easily? X-Archives-Salt: 225bb23b-b6ec-42e6-9b1f-8df1d0e319b3 X-Archives-Hash: 8f7e2c835ecac5a9ac77185a121d99e7 On Sunday 01 December 2002 19:18, foser wrote: > Peter Ruskin wrote: > > My point is that I will probably be able to emerge, for example, > > sane-backends separately, but if the first package in "These are the > > packages that I would merge, in order" fails, the `emerge -u world` > > command is thereafter useless. Why won't it skip failures? > > Because the other packages may still depend on it (eg. Galeon-1.2.7 > depends on mozilla-1.2). But then portage should be able to check if an ebuild in the chain has th= e=20 failed package as a dep and only leave those deps and that ebuild alone a= nd=20 merge the rest which does not have a failed package as a dep (or a packag= e=20 that will fail because of the failed dep) Alex --=20 "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary saf= ety=20 deserve neither liberty nor safety." Benjamin Franklin -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list