Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11 screwup

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

On Sunday 02 July 2006 23:39, Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> On Sunday 02 July 2006 17:00, Bo Ørsted Andresen wrote:
> > On Sunday 02 July 2006 22:53, Donnie Berkholz wrote:
> > > That's gonna remove lots of non-xorg stuff, and not catch all xorg
> > > stuff.
> > >
> > > You can grab a list of all modular X packages at
> > > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-packages.txt and
> > > run this:
> > >
> > > emerge -1 $(<modular-x-packages.txt)
> >
> > Much better. :)
>
> I'm running ext3 file system
> I've had a look at the above but it want's me to unmask a whole bunch of
> packages. I'd prefer to stick to the stable stuff.  I've only the one
> laptop and a lot of work on at the moment.  I can't afford to be out of
> action for too long

You can try this. It only emerges packages that are already installed:

# while read pkg; do equery list "$pkg" | grep -q "$pkg" && emerge -1 "$pkg";
	done < modular-x-packages.txt

-- 
Bo Andresen