"pk" <pk@pk.invalid> wrote in message news:fsfnhi$ff$1@aioe.org...
> Just another note. You said you want to keep some settings for some
> applications. My advice in case you reinstall, is to backup your whole
> home
> directory (if it's not already on a dedicated partition) and the
> whole /etc. I don't know VDR and where it stores its configuration, but I
> guess it's either somewhere in /etc or somewhere in your home directory
> (for instance in ~/.vdr or something like that). After the reinstall,
> reemerge VDR and then restore your home directory and the relevant files
> from /etc (which should be apparent by their names), and see whether
> things
> work like before (they should).
>
Thanks again . Yes, I'll go for that . It shouldn't be too painful, an
really useful ( at least for my understandind of Gentoo ) ,
my /home is in a dedicated partition . Some applis are a bit tricky to
install but I've always ( .. ok, almost ) succeeded .
I think I'll take the opportunity to try gnome or compiz, instead of kde

regards,
jf