On Wed, Mar 01, 2017 at 11:33:56PM -0500, Harry Putnam wrote
> Setup: VBox vm running gentoo(amd64) guest on a win-10 (64bit) host
>  Hardware: HP xw8600 - 2x Xeon  CPU X5450 @ 3.00GHz - 32 GB ram
> 
> I've seen a few other mentions of the phenomena I'm about to describe.
> It is not clear to me why something like this would happen. Or what is
> to be done to prevent it.
> 
> After going thru install and bulding of X based lxde desktop gentoo
> OS, I'm at the stage where I would do another emerge world followed by
> --depclean  or something similar.
> 
> Decided to take the @world in the two available bites; @system then
> @world
> 
> My cmdline was `emerge -vaDt @system'
> 
> Showed 44 pkgs only 2 were updates and 42 were reinstalls.

  If you want to rebuild everything, including dependancies, try

emerge -e @world

  You'll find out how many packages you have installed and how fast your
system is. <G>

-- 
Walter Dnes <waltd...@waltdnes.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications

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