On 25/08/14 17:19, Alan McKinnon wrote: > 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 > > and wasnt many of the file system changes being made because some folks wanted a read only /usr but were not there yet?
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