On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 09:07:15PM -0700, Sami Samhuri wrote: > * 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 > > 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>` > > 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.
If erescue is a statically built binary that basically untars a backed up copy of a package, why would it depend on Python? -- David Stanek www.roninds.net GPG keyID #6272EDAF on http://pgp.mit.edu Key fingerprint = 8BAA 7E11 8856 E148 6833 655A 92E2 3E00 6272 EDAF
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