* 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.

-- 
Sami Samhuri

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