On 04/26/2015 04:48 PM, james wrote: > > One simple fix is this blockage of packages that do not need to be blocked. > When I wait more than 5 or 6 days to update, I often get many packages to > build, running something like 'emerge -uDNvp world'. Yes I know I can sit > there and go through every package with --ask, but that is a huge > waist of time, particularly if you poll user desires. So I find all > the packages (ugly little cut|awk|sed|paste script) and install everything > that is not really block. Source && update and then concentrate on the > actual blockage. I'd be surprised if this is anything other than a trivial > fix to portage (hello no, I'm not working on portage!; Zac is very smart and > capable and look how he struggles...). >
File a bug for this! I've wished for it myself. Maybe it's easy to do and it doesn't exist because nobody has asked.
