On 15/03/2015 16:45, Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote: > > >> On March 14, 2015 at 6:12 PM Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> 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, get past the blocking >> USE, then see all the flags that portage thinks changed. >> >> I wonder if there might be an easier way that I don't know of. >> >> -- >> Alan McKinnon >> alan.mckin...@gmail.com > > 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. Then "mv package.use.test /etc/portage/package.use" will > put you back in business.
Good find, hopefully I'll never need it again :-) As luck would have it, I'd already finished reconstructing the file manually the long way round - took about 3 hours. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
