It would be great to make --skipfirst take a number like --skipfirst 20, thats fantastic for resuming stuff like emerge world -e, when something b0rks, and you have to re-emerge something else first... emerge --skipfirst 25 world -e would resume on the 26th package on the emerge! ;) Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
sounds like a good idea ... sometimes i hit two/three broken packages that i want to skip in a big world update ...
Isn't bug #12768 essentially what is required?
this is just adding a number to skipfirst, so instead of just first it skips the first 20 or something.. Very useful if you're repairing a broken system with emerge -e world, and something breaks and you have to fix something else, hence resume is not an option. Then you can do emerge - world --skipfirst 60 and start at the 60th pkg.
This could only ever be a short-term "fix" though. The package order which is gleaned from the tree which is currently being stored is going to be replaced by storing the tree itself. Hence, skipping x number of packages will no longer make sense. If fixing bug #12768 will solve your problem, it'd be better to wait for that than to add functionality which has a short life span.
Think what is really wanted here is what is described in bug 118874: --start-from=XXX. That way you don't have to count how many packages you want to skip ;) *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 118874 ***
