From: cestpasjihef@ifree.fr   
      
   Hi u all :)   
      
   OK, I've done some stupid things : "emerge -C .." of some packages (   
   including KDE ;) ), because I got collisions when updating or installing   
   needed packages . Now, I can boot and a lot of things work well, but I can't   
   reinstall kde, or gnome , I get a lot of 'econf errors' . Emerge world ,   
   emerge system, revdep-rebuild ... all of these fail with econf errors or   
   collisions ...   
   Then I'd like to reinstall my Gentoo, but I don't want to lose my datas (   
   photos, movies ) , and if possible, I'd like not to have to reinstall some   
   applications like VDR , witch is sometimes a bit painfull to get working ;)   
   .   
   As I can boot my Gentoo OK, do you think I could try an install from stage3,   
   booting normally ( not from CD and chroot ) , erase my \distfiles and get   
   the new portage....bz2 ( allready downloaded ) ?   
   Before all of this happened , I had allready updated the kernel, so the   
   differences should not be too big ?   
      
   Thanks a lot for your answers   
      
   cu,   
   jf   
      
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