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 62362139894 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 14:47:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BA337E0877; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 14:47:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from plane.gmane.org (plane.gmane.org [80.91.229.3]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5CE67E085B for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 14:47:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZTt1i-00085N-2c for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 16:47:10 +0200 Received: from c-24-99-200-236.hsd1.ga.comcast.net ([24.99.200.236]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 16:47:10 +0200 Received: from reader by c-24-99-200-236.hsd1.ga.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 24 Aug 2015 16:47:10 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: emerge world looking grim Date: Mon, 24 Aug 2015 10:46:59 -0400 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87bndwiw0s.fsf@reader.local.lan> References: <87lhd1ig1t.fsf@reader.local.lan> <20150824131744.GA2518@acm.fritz.box> <55DB1F2B.4060706@gmail.com> 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 X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-24-99-200-236.hsd1.ga.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.130012 (Ma Gnus v0.12) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:uZdEJ+zOCbnwjdpLP+vOaN31GOU= X-Archives-Salt: 02604239-2238-4662-a7d1-8bef620c2b61 X-Archives-Hash: fce4664419a11831ed36a2c699f47b25 Alan McKinnon 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