Re: [gentoo-user] A portage nuisance

[Michael Orlitzky <mjo@gentoo.org>]

On 10/28/2017 08:10 PM, Wols Lists wrote:
> 
> In other words, I'm asking emerge to automate what I do - look at the
> output, find a subset of packages that I think will work, and then ask
> it to try again with just those packages. I would be very surprised if
> it iterated repeatedly down to the null set.

This should be possible. I've lovingly referred to this option in the
past as something like "emerge --just-fucking-do-anything". I can have
300 packages in my update list, with a bunch of installed stuff
depending on a masked version of ruby, and a package that needs to be
manually uninstalled, and new REQUIRED_USE conflicts, and subslot
rebuilds of things that are now masked, and...

And yet portage still knows that timezone-data is going to get updated.
If I can look through the list and "emerge -1 timezone-data" and have
that work, then portage should be able to figure that out, too. No
matter how long it takes, it can't be slower than me doing it by hand.