[gentoo-user] New USE Flags, Emerge -e world --> Broken systems -- PLEASE HELP

[Timothy A. Holmes]

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
understanding of how portage and the USE flags interact, removed all the
use flags, changed them to:

USE="-*"

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?

Thanks

TIM


Timothy A. Holmes
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