Try the --emptytree option (with --pretend of course). On 6/4/05, Alexander Skwar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > Because I've got way too much time at my hands *G*, I'd like to rebuild > my entire system - IOW: I want to recompile all the packages that are > currently installed. > > How do I do that? > > If I check how many packages are currently installed by running > > ls -1d /var/db/pkg/*/* | wc -l > > I see that there are 1192. But if I count the number of ebuilds > returned by > > emerge -Dep world > > I get only 292. So "emerge -De world" would NOT re-compile everything > that's on my system. > > How can I recompile everything that's currently installed and avoid > cluttering my "world" file with unneeded entries? > > Thanks a lot, > > Alexander Skwar > -- > wok, n.: > Something to thwow at a wabbit. > > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > >
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