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If you have gentoolkit installed on another box, you can do

`quickpkg gcc`


brant williams
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On Wed, 19 Sep 2007, Shawn Haggett wrote:

> Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2007 22:55:23 +0930
> From: Shawn Haggett <podge@...>
> Reply-To: gentoo-hardened@g.o
> To: gentoo-hardened@g.o
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-hardened] Unmerged gcc
> 
> Johannes Skov Frandsen wrote:
>>  Hi Guys
>>
>>  Any ideas on what went wrong....and even more important.... how to fix
>>  the problem.
>
> No idea why portage would want to remove gcc.... As for recovery though, if 
> you have another system available, there is a way to build a binary package 
> without actually compiling it, rather just sucking the files back up from the 
> current system. Unfortunatly I don't remember how to do this, I thought it 
> was an emerge option, or with the qpkg tool, but neither seem to be the one 
> from my quick look.
>
> However if you can do that, then you could emerge that binary package on your 
> broken host with the --usepkgonly option.
>
> Shawn
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