On Sunday 18 April 2010 17:29:12 YoYo siska wrote: > You can still break the emerge (for example with ctrl-c) when it > starts to emerge gcc, the continue the emerge process with emerge > --resume --skipfirst > > that's what I usually do with openoffice and similar apps when I do a > "quick" update and fail to notice the large app in there.. ;)
I assume you aren't specifying --jobs=[2,3,4,...]. Very useful embellishment of emerge: gets things done in half the time. -- Rgds Peter.