From: Lucio Sauer <watermanpaint@posteo.net>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] 2024-02-26-debianutils-drops-installkernel-dep: add news item
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2024 22:39:13 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20240226223913.26dhxekedfqucrdx@logos.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c9a9ab98-b3ea-4d90-ae92-cf872ae53ad5@gentoo.org>
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On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 06:13:32PM +0100, Andrew Nowa Ammerlaan wrote:
> Previously sys-kernel/installkernel was implicitly installed on many systems
> via a dependency in sys-apps/debianutils. This dependency was toggled
> by the "installkernel" USE flag, and enabled by default.
>
> sys-apps/debianutils was in turn pulled in by app-misc/ca-certificates,
> an essential package installed on many systems. However, this
> dependency was recently removed.
In my opinion, the last sentence reads as if app-misc/ca-certificates was
recently removed. I suggest rewording the passage as follows:
Until recently, sys-apps/debianutils was in turn pulled in by
app-misc/ca-certificates, an essential package installed on many systems.
This is no longer the case.
> As a result many users may find that ...
Best,
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Lucio Sauer
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2024-02-26 22:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2024-02-26 17:13 [gentoo-dev] 2024-02-26-debianutils-drops-installkernel-dep: add news item Andrew Nowa Ammerlaan
2024-02-26 22:39 ` Lucio Sauer [this message]
2024-02-27 2:28 ` Oskari Pirhonen
2024-02-27 4:23 ` Andrew Nowa Ammerlaan
2024-02-27 3:55 ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2024-02-27 4:21 ` Eli Schwartz
2024-02-27 4:58 ` Andrew Nowa Ammerlaan
2024-02-27 6:26 ` [gentoo-dev] " Ulrich Mueller
2024-02-27 6:44 ` [gentoo-dev] 2024-02-26-debianutils-drops-installkernel-dep: add news item v2 Andrew Nowa Ammerlaan
2024-02-27 17:24 ` Hank Leininger
2024-02-28 12:34 ` Andrew Nowa Ammerlaan
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