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On Thu, 16 Nov 2006, Flophouse Joe wrote:
> Yes, I think an "emerge --deep --emptytree world" would be in order.

Wow.  The other posters are right.  Re-emerging everything is a waste of
time.  It'd be much easier to re-emerge only the packages that had
placed files into /sbin .

Thanks, Geistteufel and Bo Andresen for reminding me of this!

Joe
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