White, Phil wrote: > On 7 March 2017 at 19:38, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk > <mailto:n...@digimed.co.uk>> wrote: > > > Please don't top post, it is disliked on this list. > > > Sorry - a consequence of moving away from a proper mail client, and on > to a web-based thing. > > > If you copied over /var/db/pkg you have a rather confused and > messed up > system. The safest way to recreate it is probably to move the pkg > directory elsewhere and then run "emerge -e @world". > > > Yep! I think that would be a polite way of putting it! ;) > > > gcc is slotted, so emerging 4.9.4 will not touch your 5.4.0 > installation, > you use gcc-config to choose which one to use. What does gcc-config -l > show? > > > Just the one line: > [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.9.4 > > I *think*, that with little time and patience, I can now sort this out. > Thanks for the emerge -e hint. It doesn't seem to be in the emerge man > page, though. What is the long-option name? > > Kind regards, > > Phil
Here ya go. --emptytree (-e) Reinstalls target atoms and their entire deep dependency tree, as though no packages are currently installed. You should run this with --pretend first to make sure the result is what you expect. Dale :-) :-)
