On Sun, 15 Mar 2015 00:12:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I delete package.use and have no backup > > Is there any easy way to recover what was in it? I'm busy doing it the > long way round - repeatedly running emerge world, get past the blocking > USE, then see all the flags that portage thinks changed. > > I wonder if there might be an easier way that I don't know of.
I can't think of an approach any better than what you're doing. But console yourself with the thought that you will only ever have to do this once, because you'll always backup /etc/portage from now on. BTW having backups is no protection against ID-ten-T errors. I no longer use BackupPC so decided to delete my backuppc subvolume last week, and used tab completion, not noticing that it completed on backup until an ohnosecond before hittng enter. I wondered why the backuppc volume was still listed, then I wondered why it was listed first, then I cried. -- Neil Bothwick "Thou shalt not battle over operating systems. I am wise and in My wisdom have created diverse and various operating systems." The Ten Usenet Commandments: One
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