Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use

2015-03-15 Thread Bruce Hill, Jr.
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 -

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use

2015-03-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 15 Mar 2015 10:45:32 -0400 (EDT), Bruce Hill, Jr. wrote: 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. Nice one! Who needs backups? -- Neil Bothwick If

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use

2015-03-15 Thread Alan McKinnon
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use

2015-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 15/03/2015 00:36, Simon Thelen wrote: On 15-03-15 at 00:12, Alan McKinnon 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

[gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use

2015-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
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

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use

2015-03-14 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Sun, 15 Mar 2015 00:12:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use

2015-03-14 Thread Alan McKinnon
On 15/03/2015 01:52, Neil Bothwick wrote: On Sun, 15 Mar 2015 00:12:49 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: 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,

Re: [gentoo-user] Reconstruct package.use

2015-03-14 Thread Simon Thelen
On 15-03-15 at 00:12, Alan McKinnon 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