On 2024-02-27, andrewammerlaan wrote:

> 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.[2]. As a result many users may find
> that sys-apps/debianutils and therefore sys-kernel/installkernel are no
> longer part of the dependency graph and will therefore be cleaned up by
> "emerge --depclean".

Sorry for speaking up late: I (mis)read the second sentence differently
from others in this thread, apparently.

"This is no longer the case." might apply to the first part of the
previous sentence, "was in turn pulled in by".

Or it might apply to the second part, "an essential package installed on
many systems."

I think what's meant is the former, it is no longer pulled in. But
someone reading this cold could be forgiven for reading that as
"ca-certificates is no longer an essential package".

Unfortunately my recommendation would be to restore the mention of a
dependency, in some form or fashion, which seems to be something that
was removed due to earlier feedback in this thread.

Maybe:

Until recently, sys-apps/debianutils was in turn pulled in by
app-misc/ca-certificates, an essential package installed on many
systems. That package no longer depends on sys-apps/debianutils.  As a
result many users may find that sys-apps/debianutils and therefore
sys-kernel/installkernel are no longer part of the dependency graph and
will therefore be cleaned up by "emerge --depclean".

Thanks,

Hank