I thought about this, but not wanting to depend on gentoolkit makes
using equery for example a little awkward.
This, I'm sure isn't fully feature-rich yet - and something like this
will be the next addition to go in.

On Wed, 2005-05-04 at 15:24 +0900, Georgi Georgiev wrote:
> maillog: 04/05/2005-00:00:38(+0100): John Mylchreest types
> > Hi All,
> > 
> > Can I please introduce into the tree sys-kernel/module-rebuild.
> > This tracks linux-mod installed kernel modules, and also gives you the
> > ability to remove/add/toggle the list of modules to rebuild.
> > 
> > Basically.. following a kernel upgrade running: module-update rebuild,
> > will install all modules installed via portage.
> > 
> > If you experience any problems, please file a bug at bugzilla. Likewise,
> > please file a bug and assign it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] if you have any
> > ideas about the tool.
> 
> I personally think that the following is sufficient:
> 
> # emerge -pv $(equery b /lib/modules | sed -e 's:^:>=:' )
> 
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> [ebuild   R   ] media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.9_rc2  -debug -doc +oss -pcmcia 0 
> kB 
> [ebuild   R   ] media-video/nvidia-kernel-1.0.7174  -pcmcia 0 kB 
> [ebuild   R   ] sys-fs/cdfs-2.6.3a  0 kB [1] 
> 
> Total size of downloads: 0 kB
> Portage overlays:
>  [1] /usr/portage-chutz
>  [2] /usr/portage-maildir
> 
> I am not trying to shoot down your idea, but you could probably use
> something similar to automatically generate the list of packages to
> rebuild if the database is empty?
> 
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