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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: [gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 00:12:49 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5504B261.7@gmail.com> (raw)

It took 10 years but I've finally done something monumentally stupid in
Gentoo:

I delete package.use and have no backup

Is there any easy way to recover what was in it? I'm busy doing it the
long way round - repeatedly running emerge world, get past the blocking
USE, then see all the flags that portage thinks changed.

I wonder if there might be an easier way that I don't know of.

-- 
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com



             reply	other threads:[~2015-03-14 22:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-03-14 22:12 Alan McKinnon [this message]
2015-03-14 22:36 ` [gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use Simon Thelen
2015-03-14 23:07   ` Alan McKinnon
2015-03-14 23:39     ` [gentoo-user] " James
2015-03-14 23:56       ` Alan McKinnon
2015-03-14 23:52 ` [gentoo-user] " Neil Bothwick
2015-03-15  0:03   ` Alan McKinnon
2015-03-15 14:45 ` Bruce Hill, Jr.
2015-03-15 17:22   ` Neil Bothwick
2015-03-15 20:56   ` Alan McKinnon

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