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 1EDD0138CA3 for ; Sun, 15 Mar 2015 14:45:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 69E2DE09F1; Sun, 15 Mar 2015 14:45:34 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mout.perfora.net (mout.perfora.net [74.208.4.194]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4DAC0E0905 for ; Sun, 15 Mar 2015 14:45:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from oxuslxltgw01.lxa.perfora.net ([172.19.206.16]) by mrelay.perfora.net (mreueus001) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0Lbs0o-1ZDxKy0rBc-00j7TA; Sun, 15 Mar 2015 15:45:32 +0100 Date: Sun, 15 Mar 2015 10:45:32 -0400 (EDT) From: "Bruce Hill, Jr." To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Cc: Alan McKinnon Message-ID: <689609943.211110.1426430732068.JavaMail.open-xchange@oxuslxltgw01.lxa.perfora.net> In-Reply-To: <5504B261.7@gmail.com> References: <5504B261.7@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use 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-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 Importance: Medium X-Mailer: Open-Xchange Mailer v7.6.0-Rev38 X-Originating-Client: com.openexchange.ox.gui.dhtml X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:Falh73DR+PpAWRp67lRgPBGyLDk9rUap1rzq/y9lTBlpWA5+tPh A2dzHALW+WcFs/mG0s1Xr/dZKkzDHmDHs9Y8V1vPcXzJwg3WvzEpRiffs5p39EsvRR8Vk/J XiiMI/PD9EvwKnQq8hTzjPvlBat9J+DnHCEpzRMKdHunQOoyTpi7XCXm0rEj7Q56t+Jum7d tj5d/bOrljxLlv0bBc8zA== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1; X-Archives-Salt: 33ec6a72-7b8a-4522-99c7-f10cb4d966ed X-Archives-Hash: fea689bb11e461c83424d5cbd95586c7 > On March 14, 2015 at 6:12 PM 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. > > -- > Alan McKinnon > alan.mckinnon@gmail.com You have lost nothing, thanks to gentoolkit. Please run "enalyze rebuild use" and you will get package.use.test which will be the difference between default USE flags and yours. Then "mv package.use.test /etc/portage/package.use" will put you back in business. Happy Penguin Computers >`) 805 Grant Street ( \ Bessemer, AL 35020 ^^ Cell: 205-535-0347 support at happypenguincomputers dot com http://www.happypenguincomputers.com