Neil Bothwick wrote: > ebuild /usr/portage/category/package-version.ebuild merge > > Whereas emerge clears the work directory and starts again, running ebuild > directly does not. It's also possible with emerge with > FEATURES="keepwork" but I prefer the ebuild method. > With the Thunderbird ebuild, at least, directly invoking ebuild starts compilation over, but it does not re-unpack the files. I'm not quite sure how it does that, though. I know it re-runs configure, which might have something to do with it. It might actually resume properly on other ebuilds.
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