On 08/13/2016 10:09 AM, hw wrote: >> >> Not the whole system, only portage. It should still be your last resort, >> but on the bad-idea scale it's only a 1 or a 2. > > And how would I know which of all the files affect only portage and nothing > else, and what about the dependencies of portage? >
equery f portage Chances are, portage will be happy with whatever dependencies you already have installed. If not, you can repeat the process on those dependencies. Booting into a liveCD on another machine and making a quickpkg would save you from having to overwrite the files manually. But, I think Andreas's was the best suggestion so far.
