ports-mgmt/portmaster SUGGEST

[Warren Block]

On Thu, 14 Feb 2013, awarecons wrote:

> Firstly, thank you for such nice and handy tool.
>
> Secondly, would suggest you few handy options of portmaster:
>
> - if port fails give it a second try with question 'Retry?'. A user
> may change some influencing options, for e.g. compiler from gcc 4.2 to
> 4.6 or clang, before proceeding new try;
>
> - if port fails give the whole process second try suggesting restart
> from the ascend port 'Retry from the ascend port and reconfigure it?',
> so the user has opportunity to disable failing sibling.
>
> Such options are quite handy for large bunches like x11/gnome2|kde4,
> when one has 300-500 ports to build and wouldn't oblige to restart the
> whole process each time within failure appears.

When portmaster fails out, it shows a list of the remaining ports to 
build.  Dependencies that have already been installed will not be 
rebuilt if you use that list.