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You might try regenworld, but run it with --help first so you know
what is going to do. And be sure backup your world file first.

- --Kevin

On Thu, Sep 22, 2005 at 01:46:22PM +1000, Cameron Blackwood wrote:

>
> eeek! depclean wants to remove portmap and screen and all this other
> stuff I need. Ah, because it isnt in /var/lib/portage/world I
> guess... it seems Ive overestimated emerge's work.
>
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n 9/21/05, Kevin Bryan <bryank@cs.uri.edu> wrote:
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> You might try regenworld, but run it with --help first so you know
> what is going to do. And be sure backup your world file first.
>
> - --Kevin
>

I wouldn't suggest that at all. According to the Gentoo Portage team
regenworld *isn't* for adding missing ebuilds to the world file. I
was doing an "emerge -up --deep world" and it was missing stuff, so I
thought regenworld should fix this -- wrong! It is just to be used as
a starter world file in a recovery situation, you'll still have to add
a lot of things to it manually and sometimes get rid of things that
you don't have installed.

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