2016-02-23 10:40 GMT+02:00 Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk>: > On Tue, 23 Feb 2016 07:54:57 +0200, gevisz wrote: > >> During an update of my Gentoo box yesterday, >> the subtitleeditor failed to compile. >> >> Then, I uninstalled it, updated the rest of the >> system and tried to install the subtitleeditor anew. >> >> As a result, its compilation failed even more graciously. > > I don't have an answer to the build issue, but you don't need to > uninstall a package to get a world update to complete. Either use > --keep-going, which will carry on after a package fails, or use --exclude > to avoid updating that package in the first place.
Thank you for the advice. The reason for uninstalling the package (and the other 3 packages it depends on with --depclean), updating the rest of the system and installing it anew was that I wanted to exclude the case that this package does not update because it needs a newer versions of all packages it depends on, though I agree that running world update with --exclude and then reemerging the excluded package will do (almost?) the same. P.S. My previous world update was just a week ago.
