On 17/02/2020 10:26, Dale wrote:
I ran into a issue with qt upgrades and it got interesting. Since it
was part way through, some applications that I needed wouldn't open due
to a mismatch in versions. [...]
!!! --buildpkgonly requires all dependencies to be merged.
!!! Cannot merge requested packages. Merge deps and try again.
So, I have to emerge packages in order to emerge others. I get that
packages depend on each other but is there a way around that?
You'd need to maintain two gentoo installs (A and B) with the same exact
configuration with B serving as the build machine. Then you'd emerge the
packages in B, make binary packages out of every package, and then
emerge those in A.
