On Thu, Jul 31, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Stroller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 31 Jul 2008, at 19:50, Nicolas Sebrecht wrote: >> >> ... >> Note the "emerge -e world" is not what we need here as it will leave >> broken system packages (the system won't boot on the new processor). >> The '-e' option looks for the USE flags only. > > From `man emerge` > > --emptytree (-e) > Reinstalls all world packages and their dependencies ... >
Nicolas, Stroller (and the man page) is right... As "system" is part of "world", an "emerge -e world" would recompile every single package, along with all dependencies, a full system recompile, if you, for instance, change your CFLAGs to a generic one before it, at the end your system would be prepared to be used with a different processor. -- Daniel da Veiga