On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 05:13:13PM -0500, Eric Waguespack wrote:
> say for example I installed Gentoo with some USE flags, but then I
> changed my mind and wanted to add (for example) the "offensive" USE
> flag to my make.conf (I have no idea what offensive does, but with a
> name like that, it must be good http://gentoo-portage.com/USE ). what

Offensive turns on, well, possibly offensive content. For x-screensaver, 
one of the screensavers grabs images off the internet and make a mosaic.
Turning on the offensive flag means you might get porn and/or goatse 
in there. For fortune, that enables the -o option, which produces insults. 
There might be more....

> would I do (short of a reinstallation) to recompile everything with
> these new USE flags?

Now, onto the real stuff:

   emerge --newuse world

W

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