From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mout.perfora.net (mout.perfora.net [217.160.230.40]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j4G432vA032398 for ; Mon, 16 May 2005 04:03:02 GMT Received: from S0106000d88e212e5.gv.shawcable.net[24.68.20.99] (helo=diavolo.exile.net) by mrelay.perfora.net with ESMTP (Nemesis), id 0MKz5u-1DXWop2vcp-0007Rw; Mon, 16 May 2005 00:03:03 -0400 Received: by diavolo.exile.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 04AB95F0F34; Sun, 15 May 2005 21:07:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sun, 15 May 2005 21:07:15 -0700 From: Sami Samhuri To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] i have an idea ! (erescue) Message-ID: <20050516040715.GS20409@no-eff-eks.com> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <200505151718.06501.vapier@gentoo.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="BjavXC7V3ilNTWHC" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200505151718.06501.vapier@gentoo.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Provags-ID: perfora.net abuse@perfora.net login:facf15b0d38d92af5a91e515edd5eac9 X-Archives-Salt: a43db99e-d94a-4d19-9260-cef003b544df X-Archives-Hash: ac54e774e9e7d915bf0c46f922ab75c3 --BjavXC7V3ilNTWHC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable * On Sun May-15-2005 at 05:18:06 PM -0400, Mike Frysinger said: [...] > my proposal is to implement a new utility (called 'erescue' for lack of a= =20 > better name) that is written in C and designed to be statically linked ..= =2E=20 > then next time you break a core system package which cannot be recovered = by=20 > simply running `emerge` a few times, you run `erescue ` Everyone who is saying that Portage can already sort of handle this seems to be missing one important point. If Python is broken then emerge won't work. The proposed erescue would still work in that case. --=20 Sami Samhuri --BjavXC7V3ilNTWHC Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCiBxzukGyBH1UC2MRAs4MAKDHpRlPrWNAdLkj4EwTVXWSdVPTDwCfRl+a f1624lfjjdPwttgbn3huEtw= =PG3F -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --BjavXC7V3ilNTWHC-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list