From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1HqNhn-000006-5R for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 May 2007 06:18:47 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with SMTP id l4M6HUkx012544; Tue, 22 May 2007 06:17:30 GMT Received: from mirus.exceedtech.net (ns0.exceedtech.net [70.151.169.5]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.14.0/8.14.0) with ESMTP id l4M6CqKT007303 for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 06:12:52 GMT Received: from [4.231.2.248] (dialup-4.231.2.248.Dial1.Houston1.Level3.net [4.231.2.248]) by mirus.exceedtech.net (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id l4M6Clqj029025 for ; Tue, 22 May 2007 01:12:48 -0500 Message-ID: <465289DE.10209@exceedtech.net> Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 01:12:46 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -f References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------070208010901070900050606" X-Archives-Salt: 4251c488-37a8-46db-84a1-12041e97481c X-Archives-Hash: e2b8d086f8c99f2111fcf78ece0e12d4 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------070208010901070900050606 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit burlingk@cv63.navy.mil wrote: > > > So, does the emptytree (-e) option basically tell it that you don't > have ANYTHING instlled where it should be? :P > > Well, if you do a emerge -e world, it will recompile everything on your system. I do mean everything. On mine it takes a little over 48 hours. That is usually only done to fix something as a last resort or when upgrading gcc. That help? Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/-remove-me-dalek1967 Copy n paste then remove the -remove-me- part. --------------070208010901070900050606 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit burlingk@cv63.navy.mil wrote:


So, does the emptytree (-e) option basically tell it that you don't
have ANYTHING instlled where it should be? :P

Well, if you do a emerge -e world, it will recompile everything on your system.  I do mean everything.  On mine it takes a little over 48 hours.  That is usually only done to fix something as a last resort or when upgrading gcc.

That help?

Dale

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