Ha, brain-fart today.  I see you already tried that.  You can try
--onlydeps.  Check out man emerge

On 6/4/05, Mark Shields <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Try the --emptytree option (with --pretend of course).
> 
> On 6/4/05, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > Because I've got way too much time at my hands *G*, I'd like to rebuild
> > my entire system - IOW: I want to recompile all the packages that are
> > currently installed.
> >
> > How do I do that?
> >
> > If I check how many packages are currently installed by running
> >
> >         ls -1d /var/db/pkg/*/* | wc -l
> >
> > I see that there are 1192. But if I count the number of ebuilds
> > returned by
> >
> >         emerge -Dep world
> >
> > I get only 292. So "emerge -De world" would NOT re-compile everything
> > that's on my system.
> >
> > How can I recompile everything that's currently installed and avoid
> > cluttering my "world" file with unneeded entries?
> >
> > Thanks a lot,
> >
> > Alexander Skwar
> > --
> > wok, n.:
> >         Something to thwow at a wabbit.
> >
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> >
> >
> 
> 
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> 


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