On Sun, Feb 18 2018, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 18 Feb 2018 08:51:35 +0000, Mick wrote: > >> > What I do in the meantime is >> > >> > emerge --update --pretend @world >> > >> > and then manually >> > >> > emerge -1 all packages mentioned except webkit-gtk >> > >> > I do a similar procedure for >> > >> > emerge @preserved rebuild >> > >> > allan >> >> It is probably easier to just run: >> >> emerge --update --pretend --exclude webkit-gtk @world > > And even easier if you use --ask instead of --pretend, dependency > calculation seems to take a lot longer these days.
I do use --ask. I just wrote --pretend thinking (clearly incorrectly) that it would make the specific point clearer. allan
