On Sun, 20 Sep 2015 18:07:58 +0000 (UTC), James wrote:

> Yea, many of us forget the --oneshot option whilst admining about.....
> 
> This is a recurring theme. Didn't somebody post a scipt a while
> back to do this for you in one effort. Then you read the list result
> and decide which do remove from the world file?

If it gets that messed up, it's probably easier to remove the world file,
read the output from emerge -cp and then emerge -n the programs you need.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

It is impossible to fully enjoy procrastination
unless one has plenty of work to do.