Lets say I 'emerge -uDp world' to find 20 packages that are outdated, so i 'emerge -uD world' and go to bed, only to find out that since the first package didn't compile, emerge stopped altogther. I'm proposing adding a '--continue' flag that will save the error to a log, and continue with the ebuilds that weren't dependant on the one that crashed. An advancment of this would be a 'forced continue'. Lets say package 2 depends on package 1, if package 1's compile errors, but its only an upgrade, continue compiling package 2 nontheless. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. emerge info: Portage 2.0.51-r8 (default-linux/x86/2004.2, gcc-3.3.4, glibc-2.3.4.20041102-r0, 2.6.10-rc2-ck2 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.10-rc2-ck2 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.6.8 Python: dev-lang/python-2.3.4 [2.3.4 (#1, Oct 18 2004, 21:42:14)] dev-lang/python: 2.3.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.59-r6, 2.13 sys-devel/automake: 1.8.5-r2, 1.5, 1.4_p6, 1.6.3, 1.7.9, 1.9.3 sys-devel/binutils: 2.15.92.0.2-r2 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.10-r2 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.22 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=athlon-xp -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs autoconfig ccache distlocks sandbox sfperms" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="" SYNC="rsync://rsync.namerica.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X apm arts avi berkdb bitmap-fonts crypt cups encode esd f77 fam foomaticdb fortran gdbm gif gnome gpm gtk gtk2 gtkhtml imlib java jpeg junit kde libg++ libwww mad mikmod mmx motif mozilla mpeg ncurses nls offensive oggvorbis opengl oss pam pdflib perl png python qt quicktime readline ruby sdl slang spell sse ssl svga tcpd tiff truetype x86 xml2 xmms xv zlib video_cards_radeon linguas_fr"
emerge --resume and emerge --resume --skipfirst are what you require.