17827 – emerge -e option assumes too much

Bug 17827 - emerge -e option assumes too much

Summary: emerge -e option assumes too much

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 17826

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Unclassified (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	High normal
Assignee:	Gentoo Linux bug wranglers

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Reported:	2003-03-19 11:40 UTC by Tim Hosking
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:21 UTC (History)
CC List:	1 user (show)

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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 ***