Re: [gentoo-dev] i have an idea ! (erescue)

[Carlos Silva <r3pek@gentoo.org>]

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On Sun, 2005-05-15 at 17:18 -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> one advantage that other binary based package managers have over Gentoo is 
> ease of recovery from broken core packages ... break your gcc ?  no problem !  
> simply do `apt-get install gcc` or `rpm -i gcc` or whatever
> 
> my proposal is to implement a new utility (called 'erescue' for lack of a 
> better name) that is written in C and designed to be statically linked ... 
> then next time you break a core system package which cannot be recovered by 
> simply running `emerge` a few times, you run `erescue <broken package>`
> 
> for example, when i broke binutils in unstable with a gcc4 patch, i noticed 
> that it's hard for users to *easily* recover from this ... we developers end 
> up scrambling to build a bunch of binary packages for a variety of compatible 
> compiler/libc combinations so the user can just wget the file and run `emerge 
> binutils.tbz2` and be on their way
> 
> the packages that would be eligible for an 'erescue' package would be just 
> about everything when you do `USE=-* emerge system -ep` ... i'm sure we can 
> trim many of those out though :)  maybe even create a new USE flag for some 
> of these core packages so that we can trim out more files
> 
> the idea would be to create very bare min packages so that the user can simply 
> 'rescue' themselves ... after that, they it's up to them to re-emerge the 
> package to apply all their fun ricer-optimizations as they see fit
> 
> i dont think it'd be too hard to integrate this 'rescue set' into a catalyst 
> target so that it'll become part of our normal release schedule of stage 
> tarballs
> -mike

I like the ideia :)

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