[plug] Gentoo Emerge -reemerge

[William Kenworthy]

"emerge --resume" may help when restarting a current emerge - not sure
about multiple packages on the commandline, but it works for emerge -ep
and multiple dependencies, picking up where it left off

"emerge --resume --skipfirst" misses a package that breaks for some
reason and you want to continue on and pick it up later (if possible)

"emerge --newuse" will recompile only those packages that need it (I am
using this a lot att - neat!)

The "memory" is only of the last emerge that did not complete, the next
successful or failed emerge will overwrite with the current status.

BillK

On Fri, 2004-12-24 at 00:35 +0800, Timothy White wrote:
> If I specify a long line of packages I wanted emerged (emerge -ka 
> xmms-blurk xmms-shell...) and stop it part way through (or it dies part 
> way through) if I use the same command line it wants to emerge all the 
> packages again re-emerging packages already installed. This can be 
> annoying when I accidently specify a package I already have without 
> knowing it.
> 
> How can I stop it from doing this (unless I give an exact version.)
> I understand that if the USE flags change or a newer version is 
> available then it needs to re-emerge them but other than that it seems 
> pointless.
> 
> Tim
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