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

[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 `erescue <broken package>`

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.

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