-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > >> On 5/17/06, Timothy A. Holmes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hi folks - I have a major problem brewing here im afraid: >>> >>> I have several systems that I had originally built with the Gentoo >>> installer disk -- As such they have a very large group of use flags, > and >>> a fairly large genkernel. In wanting to lean them out and optimize > them >>> for running, went in, rebuilt the kernel, and apparently with a bad >> genkernel does not use USE flags, so, that's not related, probably. >> Someone will tell if I'm wrong. >> >>> understanding of how portage and the USE flags interact, removed all > the >>> use flags, changed them to: >>> >>> USE="-*" >>> >> Heh, once I tried that... Its better leave it empty than putting this. >> You CAN put "-*", but then you would have to create a fairly large >> packages.use in order to get a working system. That includes every >> package listed in "emerge -pv world" with an entry. >> >> Remove that option, start with minimal USE flags and reemerge world. >> You're lucky you didn't try emerge -e system after that. >> >>> and ran emerge -e world. The processes have all failed, and now I > have >>> broken systems -- for example, eterm wont start at all, nor will it >>> build on a re-install, firefox is messed up (the fonts look funny) > and >>> im starting to panic. Is there any way short of rebuilding these >>> systems to get things working right again? >> You're lucky that you still have a working system after all. You even >> get a working portage, so, nothing to worry about. Fix your flags and >> reemerge world. >> >> -- > > [Timothy A. Holmes] > > Turns out all 5 systems are totally broke - I will be rebuilding all of > them -- > > If anyone can suggest a good set of minimal use flags, I would be most > thankful > > Tim
I would start with the defaults, eg. leave USE="" (blank) in make.conf and then start editing package.use to modify them from there. type emerge --info to see ALL of the use flags that are being used > > Timothy A. Holmes > IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher > > Medina Christian Academy > A Higher Standard... > > Jeremiah 33:3 > Jeremiah 29:11 > Esther 4:14 > > - -- Jeremy Olexa ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Office: EE/CS 1-201 CS/IT Systems Staff University of Minnesota -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFEa0jTFN7pD9kMi/URAnE1AJkBny012MKtS+bH2m3CPNCKbVDRrACeMrxp I+NTYvs8TW/x/daMQt/7aRM= =+XcQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
