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

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Regards,

Mick