On Sunday, 3 December 2017 04:15:25 GMT Heiko Baums wrote: > Like I said before. emerge always calculates the dependency tree, which > is a lot faster in case of `emerge -e @world` than in case of `emerge > -uDN @world`. And then it knows which packages have already been > installed and which are not. > > That said I haven't run an `emerge -e @world` before. So I'm actually > not sure if this works the same way as with an `emerge -uDN @world`.
Nope. Empty-tree means empty-tree. That is, whenever you emerge -e world, you start from the beginning every time, regardless of anything you were doing just before that. -- Regards, Peter.