--buildpkg (-b short option) tell emerge to build binary packages for all ebuilds processed (in addition to actually merging the packages. Useful for maintainers or if you administrate multiple Gentoo Linux systems (build once, emerge tbz2s everywhere).
--buildpkgonly (-B short option) Creates binary a binary package, but does not merge it to the system. This has the restriction that unsatisfied dependancies must not exist for the desired package as they cannot be used if they do not exist on the system.
Matt Tucker wrote:
as far as I can tell, emerge doesn't give the option to build a package without installing it.
-B
Nice. Thanks. Perhaps it should be added to the documentation.
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