On Sunday 02 July 2006 21:19, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > tried another emerge --sync to see if that would fix the problem but no
> > joy.   So the question is, how do I force portage to down load and
> > recompile the packages from scratch?
>
> You could try `emerge -ep xorg-x11`.

I guess what I would do in your situation would be to just nuke everything in 
the x11 categories:

# grep x11 /var/lib/portage/world
# cd /var/db/pkg && emerge -Cva x11*/*

The first gets a list of the x11 packages that you had in your world file. The 
second removes all of it. Then I would emerge modular X.org again and make 
sure not to overwrite it by emerging monolithic X.org.

-- 
Bo Andresen