On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 3:01 PM Peter Humphrey <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Monday, 3 August 2020 14:18:22 BST Rich Freeman wrote: > > > Sounds like you want --usepkgonly y --binpkg-respect-use y (the first > > is the same as -K). At least, I think that is what you're getting at > > - I could be misunderstanding your goal. > > Not exactly. I'm finding that emerge -K installs every package whose binpkg > exists, regardless of whether it's installed in the system already. Emerge -k > doesn't. Neither of them takes any notice of what packages are installed in > the system, and I think they should.
-k/K have nothing to do with package selection - just the use of binary packages. If you run emerge @core then anything in @core should get installed. Adding -K or -k will either allow or force the use of binary packages, but it shouldn't cause stuff that isn't in @core to get installed unless it is a dependency. -- Rich
