From: foser <foser@foser.warande.net>
To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Why does emerge give up too easily?
Date: Sun, 01 Dec 2002 19:18:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3DEA5271.2000002@foser.warande.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200212011819.21739.aoyu93@dsl.pipex.com>
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).
If you choose to use unstable stuff atm you have to stop using -u world,
because it most likely will downgrade stuff.
- foser
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-12-01 12:28 [gentoo-dev] Why does emerge give up too easily? Peter Ruskin
2002-12-01 14:15 ` foser
2002-12-01 18:19 ` Peter Ruskin
2002-12-01 18:18 ` foser [this message]
[not found] ` <200212020913.42688.tharkun@upb.de>
2002-12-02 12:54 ` foser
2002-12-02 18:14 ` Alexander Gretencord
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