On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 06:12:13PM -0700, John Myers wrote:
> On Sunday 15 May 2005 16:41, david stanek wrote:
> > Add an option to emerge, --backup or something
> > similar, that will automatically run quickpkg.
> 
> If you set FEATURES="buildpkg", portage automatically makes binary packages 
> for you. No need to add new support.

That would build a binary package for the potentially broken
package. What it would need to do is build a binary package of the
existing merged package. So a user can recover from a botched
upgrade.

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