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Hi, |
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Timothy A. Holmes wrote: |
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> Hi folks - I have a major problem brewing here im afraid: |
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> I have several systems that I had originally built with the Gentoo |
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> installer disk -- As such they have a very large group of use flags, and |
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> a fairly large genkernel. In wanting to lean them out and optimize them |
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> for running, went in, rebuilt the kernel, and apparently with a bad |
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> understanding of how portage and the USE flags interact, removed all the |
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> use flags, changed them to: |
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The default genkernel options/modules has nothing to do with used USE |
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flags. But it's a bloat of course. Use only what you need. |
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> USE="-*" |
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You'll need at least 4-5 USE flags in order to get a working system. |
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IIRC some are "readline ncurses ...", search the ML archives for |
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"minimal USE flags" or something similar. |
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> and ran emerge -e world. The processes have all failed, and now I have |
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> broken systems -- for example, eterm wont start at all, nor will it |
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> build on a re-install, firefox is messed up (the fonts look funny) and |
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> im starting to panic. Is there any way short of rebuilding these |
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> systems to get things working right again? |
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> Thanks |
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> TIM |
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> Timothy A. Holmes |
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> IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher |
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> Medina Christian Academy |
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> A Higher Standard... |
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> Jeremiah 33:3 |
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> Jeremiah 29:11 |
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> Esther 4:14 |
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HTH.Rumen |
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