From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JRku0-0004Pu-Ga for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:06:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 63560E01E4; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:05:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 50225E01E4 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 09:05:37 +0000 (UTC) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id w53so3151268pyg.25 for ; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:05:37 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=2S1VOwYKgTHh+MlCEDdpEoi/EXAQs7FP1fOGwjw10MQ=; b=yGacVE5AasYfFyRvWquJuYapq211FuiyO1mFQYUaMQr9tkRgo1fsUznPYs/Hfp9MYJVTyfxpRcsejuvuKe9rgT9z8hkClNIcL+dqojKjvE+kK1gtdK5QoTyoaIbVe2s++aor8O/aBLIxaF5+VK8y8hyz6g67Jf47CBdqxrMeKhM= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=wCzm1q0hZ3iSY94vvQhR0TpJe7En9VKQRoUGDs4Y34P7hPocOui3aLOHVqbWguboAZul7XIV1Kz/IybR3bTTWsf++7w8ae4LWCGxsKNrvQUaVceBsXf/TLOVN1TT8eF9RBCqCgBWg1QOolFdzusbwPLq0IV5mCCMURiN7klIVHs= Received: by 10.65.139.9 with SMTP id r9mr15837944qbn.71.1203498336840; Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:05:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?192.168.200.115? ( [196.211.71.34]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id e15sm8652732qba.9.2008.02.20.01.05.34 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 20 Feb 2008 01:05:35 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge can not work ! Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:02:16 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <47BBE66A.6010603@free.fr> In-Reply-To: <47BBE66A.6010603@free.fr> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200802201102.16905.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: edd0961b-b28c-40d1-8591-30fee1e6e702 X-Archives-Hash: d4cd749b902a51884d914f4ff111d927 On Wednesday 20 February 2008, St=C3=A9phane ANCELOT wrote: > Hi, > I made a silly mistake : > emerge --unmerge python* > > now emerge does not work anymore since it needs python !!! > > Any idea ? > Best Regards > Steph Oops. An easy way is to get a quickpkg tarball of python from another machine=20 and unpack that to / Or just untar the one on a recent install disk and re-install python. If=20 all else fails I could send you a copy of python-2.5.1-r5 which is=20 about 8M large =46or insurance, I keep quickpkg copies of critical stuff - python, gcc,=20 glibc, portage - for just in case i make this same dumb mistake again=20 myself =2D-=20 Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list