From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use
Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 01:07:55 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5504BF4B.2050607@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150314223640.GA1848@anonymous>
On 15/03/2015 00:36, Simon Thelen wrote:
> On 15-03-15 at 00:12, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>> 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.
> Have you tried:
> emerge -pDU --with-bdeps=y @world
>
> That should list all packages where the installed use-flags differ from
> the "current" use-flags.
>
That is the process I'm using.
I'm looking for an easier way :-)
--
Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-14 23:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-14 22:12 [gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use Alan McKinnon
2015-03-14 22:36 ` Simon Thelen
2015-03-14 23:07 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
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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