Hi,
I wanted to emerge gnome, but I wanted that just a package is build because I want to install gnome on my laptop.
So I tried:
# export $PKGDIR=/home/jan/gentoo-packages
# emerge -B gnome
Then I get the following error message:
!!! --buildpkgonly requires all dependencies to be merged. !!! Cannot merge requested packages. Merge deps and try again.
What can I do? I want gnome as a package and not to be installed!
Well, the 'gnome' package is not all of gnome. It is a package that depends on a bunch of other packages that comprise GNOME. So, I don't know if you can really build a gnome package. If you do 'emerge -p gnome' it will give you a list of the packages that need to be built. Use 'emerge -b package' for each package in the list to emerge it and build a package. When all the packages are built, unmerge all of them. You'll still have the binary tarballs left behind.
-- Andrew Gaffney
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