Bug 17827

Summary:	emerge -e option assumes too much
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Tim Hosking <trhosking>
Component:	Unclassified	Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	normal	CC:	carpaski
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Whiteboard:
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Tim Hosking 2003-03-19 11:40:32 UTC

IMO, the -e option to emerge should not assume that it is OK to upgrade/downgrade 
packages, but should simply be an instruction to build the currently installed versions of 
all packages. This would allow us to rebuild an entire system with new flags, without 
having things complicated (and possibly broken) by installing upgrades. Let's assume I 
want to try some new CFLAGS. Ideally, it would be useful to first do an emerge -eB --
deep world to generate binaries for my system in it's current state. I can then archive 
these binaries and experiment with new flags. If it

Comment 1 Martin Holzer (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2003-03-19 12:07:16 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 17826 ***