From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j4I78CTf016180 for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 07:08:12 GMT Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2] helo=ciao.gmane.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYIf9-0000s7-Ch for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 07:08:15 +0000 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1DYIeG-0000yI-Ts for gentoo-dev@gentoo.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 09:07:20 +0200 Received: from hsdbyk206-163-248-19.sasknet.sk.ca ([206.163.248.19]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 09:07:20 +0200 Received: from dirtyepic by hsdbyk206-163-248-19.sasknet.sk.ca with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 09:07:20 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org From: R Hill Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: i have an idea ! (erescue) Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 01:07:23 -0600 Message-ID: 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: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: hsdbyk206-163-248-19.sasknet.sk.ca User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0+ (X11/20050511) In-Reply-To: <200505151718.06501.vapier@gentoo.org> Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: ee20aae0-53a0-4a32-8d01-48b72e1d7cb7 X-Archives-Hash: 7f08646ee08d27e4a0604de439dd1be0 Mike Frysinger wrote: > 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 ` that'd be cool. i found myself wishing for something like this after taking up breaking glibc as a hobby. it would have saved me a lot of chroot building. i wonder if i could suggest a small repository of default configuration files to go along with this idea? that's another thing i've found myself looking for from time to time. i know there's other ways to get the original config for whatever, but they're inconsistent and sometimes difficult. --de -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list