Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed!

[Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>]

On Saturday 11 April 2015 21:27:39 Alan Grimes wrote:
> Peter Humphrey wrote:
> > Why don't you just start again from scratch, following the official docs?
> > You don't need to override every little setting; portage knows best, just
> > like your Ma. Use the force...
> 
> Well, emptytree world seems to be working so far, the official diagnosis
> is a long-forgotten hack of a work-around to a problem that I must have
> been dealing with more than two years ago.

The only snag will be finding and removing all those ancient files lying around 
and maybe confusing you in, e.g., /etc. That's why I suggested a clean start.

Actually, I think there's another reason to prefer a clean start: if it's over 
two years since you played with the system, going through the installation 
process again would be a good refresher. You could even be a tester of the new 
documents.    ;)

-- 
Rgds
Peter