On Mon, 02 Jan 2012 16:08:44 -0500, Michael Orlitzky wrote:

> > It is not permanently broken, that implies it would stop the system
> > working. It is merely damaged, and repairable. It may take a little
> > effort to repair, but that will help you remember to be more careful
> > in future.

> No one has offered up a way to fix it yet, or a downside to the old 
> behavior.

Yes they have. Remove anything in the least suspect and emerge -cp. Then
emerge -n anything listed that you need.

There was a script floating around that created a new world file that
contained all installed packages that were not a dependency of another
installed package. It's not a perfect fix, but pretty close.

Found it: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-6861484.html


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Neil Bothwick

The law of Probability Dispersal decrees that whatever it is that hits
the fan will not be evenly distributed.