Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> 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.

That's gonna remove lots of non-xorg stuff, and not catch all xorg stuff.

You can grab a list of all modular X packages at
http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-packages.txt and
run this:

emerge -1 $(<modular-x-packages.txt)

Thanks,
Donnie