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.

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