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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Update circle
Date: Sat, 01 Sep 2018 14:24:01 +0100
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On Saturday, 1 September 2018 11:35:49 BST Wols Lists wrote:
> On 01/09/18 10:39, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> >> I wish there was a portage option that said "don't give up, just emerge
> >> 
> >> > what you can".
> > 
> > There is: --keep-going
> 
> There isn't ...
> 
> "keep going" says "don't stop once you've started". What I want is
> "start anyway".
> 
> If emerge hits a load of dependency conflicts, it refuses to start
> emerging. Instead of giving up, I want it to emerge anything that
> doesn't conflict.

Ah, now I understand.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.