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


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