Something went wrong (I was away from the screen) with a emerge --ignore --depclean --ask ; revdep-rebuild -- --ignore-default-opts --ask
I meant to answer n to the depclean since I wasn't ready to unmerge gentoo-sources, but perhaps I answered y (there were only three other--non critical packages mentioned). Anyway now emerge just returns immediately no matter what arguments it is given. I do have buildsyspkg so have many versions of portage as tbz files. But emerge won't install it (again, just returns). Can I do something analogous to an untar on one of the portage files? thanks, allan
