On Monday, 3 August 2020 20:15:45 BST Rich Freeman wrote: > On Mon, Aug 3, 2020 at 3:01 PM Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: > > On Monday, 3 August 2020 14:18:22 BST Rich Freeman wrote: > > > Sounds like you want --usepkgonly y --binpkg-respect-use y (the first > > > is the same as -K). At least, I think that is what you're getting at > > > - I could be misunderstanding your goal. > > > > Not exactly. I'm finding that emerge -K installs every package whose > > binpkg > > exists, regardless of whether it's installed in the system already. Emerge > > -k doesn't. Neither of them takes any notice of what packages are > > installed in the system, and I think they should. > > -k/K have nothing to do with package selection - just the use of > binary packages. > > If you run emerge @core then anything in @core should get installed. > Adding -K or -k will either allow or force the use of binary packages, > but it shouldn't cause stuff that isn't in @core to get installed > unless it is a dependency.
That's exactly the problem. It does. -- Regards, Peter.
