Hi, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > Hi folks - I have a major problem brewing here im afraid: > > I have several systems that I had originally built with the Gentoo > installer disk -- As such they have a very large group of use flags, and > a fairly large genkernel. In wanting to lean them out and optimize them > for running, went in, rebuilt the kernel, and apparently with a bad > understanding of how portage and the USE flags interact, removed all the > use flags, changed them to: > The default genkernel options/modules has nothing to do with used USE flags. But it's a bloat of course. Use only what you need. > USE="-*" > You'll need at least 4-5 USE flags in order to get a working system. IIRC some are "readline ncurses ...", search the ML archives for "minimal USE flags" or something similar. > and ran emerge -e world. The processes have all failed, and now I have > broken systems -- for example, eterm wont start at all, nor will it > build on a re-install, firefox is messed up (the fonts look funny) and > im starting to panic. Is there any way short of rebuilding these > systems to get things working right again? > > Thanks > > TIM > > > Timothy A. Holmes > IT Manager / Network Admin / Web Master / Computer Teacher > > Medina Christian Academy > A Higher Standard... > > Jeremiah 33:3 > Jeremiah 29:11 > Esther 4:14 > > HTH.Rumen
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