Matthew R. Lee wrote:
> 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 

This is a really weird issue that's been coming up, where the packages
are "installed" but files are missing. What filesystem(s) are you using?

> 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? 

You could try `emerge -ep xorg-x11`.

Thanks,
Donnie

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