In some situations, it is permissible to break dependencies of installed packages. For example, consider a temporary/disposable container running in a continuous integration environment, where there is no thread of negative consequences. In situations like this, it's useful to have an option to disregard @world/@system/@selected, in order to avoid conflicts when solving dependencies for packages given as emerge arguments (possibly resulting in a serious system breakage).
Patch posted for review: https://archives.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage-dev/message/dba2a674a15fdf41438909d9694ec5ba https://github.com/gentoo/portage/pull/277
The bug has been referenced in the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/proj/portage.git/commit/?id=6a810e0cdb586fb05f210a1c7ba2b5401f38c332 commit 6a810e0cdb586fb05f210a1c7ba2b5401f38c332 Author: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2018-03-21 18:50:43 +0000 Commit: Zac Medico <zmedico@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-03-26 17:35:33 +0000 emerge: add --ignore-world [ y | n ] option (bug 608564) Ignore the @world package set and its dependencies. This may be useful if there is a desire to perform an action even though it might break the dependencies of some installed packages (it might also remove installed packages in order to solve blockers). This also alters the behavior of --complete-graph options so that only deep dependencies of packages given as arguments are included in the dependency graph. This option may be useful as an alternative to --nodeps in cases where it is desirable to account for dependencies of packages given as arguments. Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/608564 man/emerge.1 | 19 ++++++++++++++++++- pym/_emerge/create_depgraph_params.py | 6 +++++- pym/_emerge/depgraph.py | 8 ++++++-- pym/_emerge/main.py | 11 ++++++++++- pym/portage/tests/resolver/test_complete_graph.py | 20 +++++++++++++++++++- 5 files changed, 58 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)}
Fixed in portage-2.3.40-r1.
