On (20/02/08 11:02) Alan McKinnon wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 February 2008, Stéphane 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 
> and unpack that to /
> 
> Or just untar the one on a recent install disk and re-install python. If 
> all else fails I could send you a copy of python-2.5.1-r5 which is 
> about 8M large
> 
> For insurance, I keep quickpkg copies of critical stuff - python, gcc, 
> glibc, portage - for just in case i make this same dumb mistake again 
> myself
> 
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> Alan McKinnon
> alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
> 
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> 
Hi,

Install python manually (2.5.1) and later reemerge it using portage.
Could also install a second manager (paludis) just in case :-)
HTH. Rumen