On 25/08/2014 11:11, Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: >> On 25/08/2014 08:17, Hinnerk van Bruinehsen wrote: >>> On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 11:58:36PM +0430, behrouz khosravi wrote: >>>> Hi. I just accidentally removed the /usr folder! >>>> And I am sure the /usr/bin and several other folders are gone! >>>> Should I go for a complete re-install or there is any other solution? >>>> Thanks and I hope that I wont find that blade that I am looking for! >>> You should be able to get away with an emerge @system @world -evDN instead >>> of >>> a complete re-install. >>> You should first get a copy of a minimal working /usr though (like from >>> a stage3 tarball), otherwise you will run into errors as /usr/bin is where >>> python and other stuff resides that you'll need for installation. >> >> gcc is also in /usr which happily guarantees that nothing can be fixed >> without unpacking a stage first >> >> > > > It seems moving so much critical stuff to /usr was a really bright > move. < lots of sarcasm there >
and, rm -rf /usr is not a user error one can reasonably expect to recover from -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com