[gentoo-user] Re: emerge world looking grim

[Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com>]

Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> writes:

Working thru all the guff with all you posters patient help would
probably have been the best but between posting and seeing answers
(suring the morning in the wee hours). I jumped stupid and starting
uninstalling some of the blockers. 

So, I've made the mess considerably worse... maybe unsolvable since I
have no gcc now and so no way to grind out the builds.... plus other
truly boneheaded uninstalls that appear to have rendered my system
unusable .... just like the little warning says when you
   gentoo -vC pkg ....... wheeeeee.

I'm pretty sure at this point... I best to get a re-install going.

Also it may help some of you posters to know that this install was not
fully developed and an in common use OS anyway....A reinstall will loose
nothing of any importance.

Whatever is there of importance would be in /home /etc/ and maybe /var
so I've rsynced them to my current Solaris desktop and will have any
needed files to use later after the reinstall has progressed to a
higher level.

Thank you all for the suggestions they are most instructive and my
notes from them should prove useful down the road.

PS - Its coming back to me how gentoo is installed with the stage3 and
portage downloads.

Again, thanks for your patience