Bug 512592

Summary:	Portage refuses to build packages when using --buildpkgonly and --keep-going if a single package in the list lacks build-time depends
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	Richard Freeman <rich0>
Component:	Core	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	normal	CC:	esigra, renelanz
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---
Bug Depends on:
Bug Blocks:	373807

Description Richard Freeman gentoo-dev

2014-06-06 10:53:41 UTC

Example command line:
emerge -uvD --changed-use --with-bdeps=n --buildpkgonly --keep-going world 

Typically an update like this will involve a mix of packages which can and cannot be built in this manner.  Right now emerge refuses to run with this error:
!!! --buildpkgonly requires all dependencies to be merged.
!!! Cannot merge requested packages. Merge deps and try again.

Instead emerge should at least build packages when the build-time dependencies are satisfied.  Obviously if the tree goes down more than one level or if there are rebuilds those packages will need to be deferred.

Reproducible: Always