Unmerge openssl and now wget won't work

[lokelo]

I unmerged openssl accidently, and now i get an error when trying to use emerge because wget uses openssl. any ideas on how i can get openssl back on without using emerge or wget? or force wget not to use openssl?
I tried to do

[ferringb]

Take a look in your /etc/make.conf for FETCHCOMMAND and RESUMECOMMAND- there are a couple of different programs you could temporarily switch to while wget is down. Alternatively, you could also just use curl or ftp (or konqueror if it's behaving) to get the openssl distfile by hand, then transfer it into your distfile directory (/usr/portage/distfiles unless you've modifed it), and try emerge again.
Note, emerge should run fine- any complaints emerge may eminate are purely from wget, since wget requires the openssl libs...

[lokelo]

thanks. i had to download it to another computer, burn it on cd and then copy it to my distfiles dir, but it is working now. at least i know what to do next time i do something really stupid