Building without Merging

[ialtywu]

I know that you can do an emerge -b foo and it will merge as well as store a binary tbz2 package _however_ I cannot find any flags for building a package _without_ merging. Is it possible to do this or must I unmerge a package after building? Will unmerging delete the binary package too?

[fghellar]

You can use ebuild to do this (man ebuild for more info).
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[delta407]

You probably want something like this:

[ialtywu]

(sound one slapping self on forehead) forgot about trying 'ebuild' instead of 'emerge' . . . I will try this, many thanks.

[delta407]

Also, to make the tarball -- instead of using compile, do this:

[ialtywu]

Thanks for the additional insight Delta407 . . .

Will ebuild also take care of the necessary dependencies, and build the additional packages (if needed) like emerge will?

Just wanted to know before I go steamrolling into this.

Thanks again.

[fghellar]

[delta407]

[ialtywu]

Ok, I think I am ready to give it a shot.

Thanks again folks, mucho appreciated.