I upgraded my xorg-x11 the other day. I followed the upgrade how-to, and everything seemed to go fine. However when I rebooted it was screwed up. The xorg.conf was a mess. I tried fixing it from memory but I couldn't sort it, and I'd forgoten to make a back up MY FAULT. Anyway I downgraded to xorg-x11-6.8.2-r8 and got x back and sorted out the problem with the xorg.conf and made a backup. I then attempted another go at upgrading and here's the problem. I follow the guide again and after 'emerge xorg-x11' it says there is nothing to download, compiles nothing, cleans up and claims it is done. I wasn't convinced, however I tried rebooting. No X, so I logged in and issued 'startx', nothing so I checked '/usr/bin/startx', it's not there, clearly it hadn't installed x So back to xorg-x11-6.8.2.-r8. I've tried another emerge --sync to see if that would fix the problem but no joy. So the question is, how do I force portage to down load and recompile the packages from scratch?
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