On Wednesday, November 22, 2017 3:34:56 PM CET Wols Lists wrote: > On 22/11/17 14:11, Tsukasa Mcp_Reznor wrote: > > You won't get build failures or dependency problems, portage is built to > > handle emerging multiple packages that do not depend on each other > > simultaneously. > > it will not ever build a dependency and the main program at the same time. > > Are you sure? > > You *shouldn't* get problems, but I'm sure I have hit that problem, and > I think it's down to buggy ebuilds.
buggy, as in, at least one dependency missed. > Starting the emerge again fixes it, because cocked-up dependencies will > sort themselves out first time round, and the second time the problem > has gone away. 2nd time the dependency might have been installed already. Sometime it hasn't. This can also cause a failure when not using parallel builds for exactly the same reason. -- Joost
