From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F021138C52 for ; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 00:06:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8724CE0B48; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 00:06:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01d.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01d.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.7]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DC7CE0B17 for ; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 00:06:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=wstn.localnet) by smarthost01d.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1Yh5Po-000GiJ-GG for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Sun, 12 Apr 2015 00:06:20 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Machine completely broken; Ncursed! Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2015 01:06:19 +0100 Message-ID: <4217540.FKfgBIrGlZ@wstn> User-Agent: KMail/4.14.3 (Linux/3.18.11-gentoo; KDE/4.14.3; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <55292E11.9040202@verizon.net> References: <55292E11.9040202@verizon.net> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost01d-IP: [82.69.80.10] X-Archives-Salt: 3eb4251b-833f-43f9-908b-58ba0703a2d5 X-Archives-Hash: dbfed539748a7c88c2bce84a4d4937d7 On Saturday 11 April 2015 10:22:09 Alan Grimes wrote: > Right now my system is completely unusable and will need fresh stage3 > packages followed by an emerge emptytree to recover. But before I can do > that, I need a sane profile and to know that the person who pushed out > the changes to portage, obviously without any testing whatsoever, that > broke my system so comprehensively is tortured, executed, butchered, and > then cremated. 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... -- Rgds Peter