[gentoo-dev] Re: i have an idea ! (erescue)

2005-05-18 Thread R Hill
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 `ere

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: i have an idea ! (erescue)

2005-05-16 Thread Thomas de Grenier de Latour
On Mon, 16 May 2005 03:24:21 -0700 Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thus, my suggestion. Why not create a second feature, > toolchain-buildpkg, I'm calling it here for purposes of > developing the suggestion, that's on by default, as contrasted > to the normal buildpkg being off by default.

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: i have an idea ! (erescue)

2005-05-16 Thread Jan Kundrát
Duncan wrote: > Thus, my suggestion. Why not create a second feature, toolchain-buildpkg, > I'm calling it here for purposes of developing the suggestion, that's on > by default, as contrasted to the normal buildpkg being off by default. > The Gentoo Handbook would then of course be modified to c

[gentoo-dev] Re: i have an idea ! (erescue)

2005-05-16 Thread Duncan
David Stanek posted <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, excerpted below, on Sun, 15 May 2005 21:56:54 -0400: > On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 06:12:13PM -0700, John Myers wrote: >> On Sunday 15 May 2005 16:41, david stanek wrote: >> > Add an option to emerge, --backup or something similar, that will >> > automatically