Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use

2015-03-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 15/03/2015 16:45, Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote: > > >> On March 14, 2015 at 6:12 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: >> >> >> It took 10 years but I've finally done something monumentally stupid in >> Gentoo: >> >> I delete package.use and have no backup >> >> Is there any easy way to recover what was in it? I'

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use

2015-03-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 15 Mar 2015 10:45:32 -0400 (EDT), Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote: > You have lost nothing, thanks to gentoolkit. Please run "enalyze > rebuild use" and you will get package.use.test which will be the > difference between default USE flags and yours. Nice one! Who needs backups? -- Neil Bothwick

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use

2015-03-15 Thread Bruce Hill, Jr.
> On March 14, 2015 at 6:12 PM Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > It took 10 years but I've finally done something monumentally stupid in > Gentoo: > > I delete package.use and have no backup > > Is there any easy way to recover what was in it? I'm busy doing it the > long way round - repeatedly run

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use

2015-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 15/03/2015 01:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 15 Mar 2015 00:12:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > >> I delete package.use and have no backup >> >> Is there any easy way to recover what was in it? I'm busy doing it the >> long way round - repeatedly running emerge world, get past the blocking

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use

2015-03-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 15 Mar 2015 00:12:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > I delete package.use and have no backup > > Is there any easy way to recover what was in it? I'm busy doing it the > long way round - repeatedly running emerge world, get past the blocking > USE, then see all the flags that portage thinks

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use

2015-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 15/03/2015 00:36, Simon Thelen wrote: > On 15-03-15 at 00:12, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> It took 10 years but I've finally done something monumentally stupid in >> Gentoo: >> >> I delete package.use and have no backup >> >> Is there any easy way to recover what was in it? I'm busy doing it the >> l

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use

2015-03-14 Thread Simon Thelen
On 15-03-15 at 00:12, Alan McKinnon wrote: > It took 10 years but I've finally done something monumentally stupid in > Gentoo: > > I delete package.use and have no backup > > Is there any easy way to recover what was in it? I'm busy doing it the > long way round - repeatedly running emerge world,