Re: [gentoo-user] Messed up - how do I emerge coreutils once coreutils is gone?

[Mark Knecht]

On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 1:43 PM, Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net> wrote:
> Uwe Thiem wrote:
>
> > On Saturday 19 April 2008, Justin wrote:
> >
> >
> > > Why are you doing things without knowing about the consequences? Always
> ask before you are doing things which could be stupid!!!
> > >
> > >
> >
> > You know, shit happens. It shouldn't but it does. Like you aren't really
> paying attention being sidetracked, and the shit hits the fan. Happens.To
> all of us. Unless you are one of those who never make mistakes, never get
> sidetracked, never pay less than 100% attention, never assume where you are
> actually supposed to know,... The list goes on. The OP had a knee jerk
> reaction, did what had seemed insane on second thougt but didn't spent such.
> It happens. He actually axplained how it happened. That's human.
> >
> > Did you never make dire mistakes? Well, if you haven't you may keep
> throwing stones in a glasshouse.
> > For the OP: There was a long thread about this just last week.
> >
> > Uwe
> >
> >
> >
>
>  And since so many other people did this too, he just called a LOT of people
> stupid.  Not good.
>
>  It didn't happen to me but only because I saw what other people did and
> that mktemp was the one to get rid of instead of coreutils.  Otherwise, I
> would have been one of the stupid people too.  Then again, I have backups.
> :-p
>
>  Dale
>

Thanks Dale, Uwe, and everyone else who responded. I really appreciate
your support.

Not worth a email to answer my detractor. He has his point of view. I
suppose he's entitled.

The system is back to working now as far as I can tell. Without all of
you I would hardly have known exactly how to proceed. With your help I
made some headway. Not sure yet whether it will reboot successfully
but at least I could emerge coreutils and mktemp successfully again.

Cheers,
Mark
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