Bug 915600

Summary:	emerge flag for "merge everything that does not conflict"
Product:	Portage Development	Reporter:	niteblade
Component:	Enhancement/Feature Requests	Assignee:	Portage team <dev-portage>
Status:	UNCONFIRMED ---
Severity:	enhancement
Priority:	Normal
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description niteblade 2023-10-11 16:23:24 UTC

<story mode>
Current situation:
something rust has been updated. almost everything depends on the new rust. firefox still needs the old rust. -> tons of conflicts that requrire endless cycles of trying to emerge, scroll through lots of lines, select a few things to mask, try again.
At the same time:
glibc has updates because of CVEs, curl the same, a few other packages the same.
</story mode>

What I would like to have is a flag to emerge that says:
I know you have issues. Just do what you can without touching anything problematic.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1 Zac Medico gentoo-dev

2023-10-11 16:42:47 UTC

This type of request is highly dependent on the specific emerge command and options used. If you're talking about emerge --update --deep @world, then you may be struggling with noise triggered by built slot-operator deps (bug 598503).