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From: Mick <michaelkintzios@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] acct-group packages ??
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2019 18:35:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2009011.dUi75G3G29@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190803182155.43d4385c@digimed.co.uk>

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On Saturday, 3 August 2019 18:21:55 BST Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sat, 3 Aug 2019 09:30:14 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> > After latest webrsync, portage wants to install these:
> > 
> > acct-group/input-0
> > acct-group/kvm-0
> > acct-group/render-0
> > 
> > No other package seems to depend on them, so wth is this about?
> 
> It seems odd that portage would want to install packages that weren't a
> dependency of something else. They are here, for example
> 
> % emerge -cpv acct-group/kvm
> 
> Calculating dependencies... done!
>   acct-group/kvm-0 pulled in by:
>     acct-user/qemu-0 requires acct-group/kvm
>     app-emulation/qemu-4.0.0-r4 requires acct-group/kvm
>     sys-apps/systemd-243_rc1-r1 requires acct-group/kvm

It's a tidying up exercise to make sure the correct system groups and user 
accounts are configured/cleaned up:

https://www.gentoo.org/glep/glep-0081.html

-- 
Regards,

Mick

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  reply	other threads:[~2019-08-03 17:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-08-03 16:30 [gentoo-user] acct-group packages ?? Ian Zimmerman
2019-08-03 17:21 ` Neil Bothwick
2019-08-03 17:35   ` Mick [this message]
2019-08-04 16:59   ` [gentoo-user] " Ian Zimmerman
2019-08-05  7:21     ` Neil Bothwick
2019-08-05 13:17       ` Michael Orlitzky
2019-08-06  8:17         ` Neil Bothwick

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