I think that it would make things more clear and simple if portage did support the following (maybe some are already included, but not found by me):

* Add package to "world" checking all dependencies, but not emerging
* Remove package from "world" without unmerging
* Save all important messages into file instead of beeping (i may be away from home); optionally replay them at end of update
* When updating or installing new package, if something goes wrong, still emerge other packages, which havent failed packages as dependencies -- in my case, for example, when i do --update, for example, then the fact that update of first package fails does not definitely mean that i dont want to update others

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