I suppose to rescue it you can grab a portable Python release and use that to emerge a proper one, another option would be booting into a live environment. And to cause this, --unmerge and --rage-clean are your friends. No idea how you’d do that “accidentally”, though.
I once accidentally deleted python from my gentoo system (needed for emerge) and rescued it.
Wow, I did that on CentOS and reinstalling the OS was the only sure shot way I could figure
How did you do that? (Both "that"s I guess!)
I suppose to rescue it you can grab a portable Python release and use that to emerge a proper one, another option would be booting into a live environment. And to cause this,
--unmergeand--rage-cleanare your friends. No idea how you’d do that “accidentally”, though.You are the chosen one.