Re: Emerge --resume --skipfirst

On Monday, 27 April 2026 21:39:54 British Summer Time Dale wrote:
> On 4/27/26 2:18 PM, Philipp Ludwig wrote:
> > If you are in the mood for a hack, add --keep-going to the
> > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS.
> > Then, in a case like "i actually don't want to compile this
> > huge package", you can just kill the respective compilation
> > process; emerge registers this a a failed compilation
> > and keeps going with the remaining packages.
> > 
> > Note: This is not recommended by any dev, so try at your own risk.
> 
> I actually added this to my options in make.conf long ago and it works
> very well.  If I start a emerge and a package fails and I'm napping or
> not watching it, it just continues on and lets me know at the end what
> failed.
> 
> In the situation that the OP is in, just doing a CTRL C and then
> restarting the emerge should skip that first package just fine.  So as a
> user who has used this setting for a long time, it does work well.

The option is in my make.conf, but I hadn't thought of that way of resuming an 
emerge.

You learn something new every day, it seems.

-- 
Regards,
Peter.