On Wednesday 25 May 2005 22:14, Matan Peled wrote:
> Mrugesh Karnik wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > My Gentoo system is up and running beautifully. Along the way, I've
> > installed many software. But, now, I want to make it all systematic, ie,
> > use the files like package.use, package.keywords etc to list out the
> > options i've used for the different software. Now the problem is that
> > I've installed the software with different use flags and keywords right
> > now the command line. Now I want to make it systematic and proper. I'm
> > just wondering if you people could help me find a good way as to how to
> > go about this. Right now I can see myself doing a very very tedious job
> > of using equery and such and listing out everything properly... a few
> > hours' work. I'm prepared to do it of course, but I'd like any
> > suggestions that might help me do it better.
> >
> > Thank you.
> >
> > Yours faithfully,
> > Mrugesh Karnik
>
>  emerge world -uDpv
> and fix all the packages that want to be downgraded.
>
>  emerge world --newuse
> and fix all the packages that want to change their useflags.

Mostly right. You'll need to add --deep and --update to the --newuse run as 
well.

Regards,
Jason Stubbs

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