Hi all! I was emerging kdebase, and after a few hours of compiling, I got a compile error. So I went to /var/tmp/... to fix it. Then I did emerge kdebase again, but emerge reunpacks the original tarball thereby overwriting my compilation fixes. I think it would be very usefull is there was and option so that emerge uses the existing sources in /var/tmp/.... That way you don't have to rebuild the whole thing everytime you find an error, but you can just fix the error, and continue the build. This is just a feature request, but I imagine it could come in handy (also for people who want to do some custom patching) B.t.w. gentoo is a very, good distro!! Good work everyone!
This is _not_ something that will be made easy, as it is potentially harmful. You can use ebuild to accomplish what you want though. FEATURES="-noauto" ebuild /usr/portage/kde-base/package/package-version.ebuild compile install qmerge
