Well, possibly you could unmerge them by completing the following steps: 1. copy the library files for the packages to a temporary location. 2. unmerge the packages. 3. copy the library files back to their original location (may need to do this from the livecd if the failures are as catastrophic as the other guy mentioned). 4. emerge coreutils (possibly with the use flags defined to explicitly not use acl/attr) to get a coreutils that does not have the dependencies. 5. remove the library files. 6. pray for no major catastrophes. ;-)
NOTE: I have no idea if this would really work, I'm just brainstorming. Dave -- [email protected] mailing list
