From: tastytea <gentoo@tastytea.de>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2021 14:46:21 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20210725144621.14dfad68@ventiloplattform.tastytea.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <60FD5869.2050406@youngman.org.uk>
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On 2021-07-25 13:26+0100 Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk> wrote:
> On 25/07/21 12:47, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> >> They are, @system is a set of packages and nothing it it will be
> >> > depcleaned. However, openrc is not part of @system, the virtual
> >> > is.
>
> > Ah, that's it. So we have critical system packages which aren't
> > part of @system. I think openrc is a critical system package.
> >
> Well, it's not installed on my new system. I doubt it's installed on
> any new-ish gentoo-gnome systems. So openrc itself can't be critical.
>
> It may be critical for *your* system ... :-)
>
> Let's rephrase it - "openrc is one of the (optional) packages that
> satisfied a critical dependency". Your problem is caused because you
> have explicitly installed an alternate package that satisfies the same
> critical dependency.
Maybe OpenRC should come pre-recorded into @world on profiles that
default to it. If I switch to another init system I can explicitly
uninstall OpenRC. Forgetting to uninstall it is no big deal.
Accidentally uninstalling it makes my system unbootable.
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Thread overview: 66+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-21 20:06 [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes! Alan Mackenzie
2021-07-21 20:13 ` tastytea
2021-07-21 20:27 ` Neil Bothwick
2021-07-24 13:47 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-07-24 14:14 ` Rich Freeman
2021-07-24 14:46 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-07-24 14:58 ` Rich Freeman
2021-07-24 21:01 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-07-25 9:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2021-07-25 11:47 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-07-25 12:26 ` Wols Lists
2021-07-25 12:46 ` tastytea [this message]
2021-07-25 13:49 ` Dale
2021-07-25 13:59 ` Wols Lists
2021-07-25 14:24 ` Dale
2021-07-25 13:43 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-07-25 14:20 ` Dale
2021-07-25 15:40 ` Neil Bothwick
2021-07-25 16:31 ` [gentoo-user] " Martin Vaeth
2021-07-25 17:25 ` [gentoo-user] " Alan Mackenzie
2021-07-25 22:03 ` Neil Bothwick
2021-07-25 16:18 ` [gentoo-user] " Martin Vaeth
2021-07-25 18:05 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-07-25 19:54 ` Rich Freeman
2021-07-26 19:19 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-07-26 20:17 ` Rich Freeman
2021-07-29 20:24 ` Martin Vaeth
2021-07-29 20:32 ` Rich Freeman
2021-07-29 21:38 ` Martin Vaeth
2021-07-29 22:58 ` Rich Freeman
2021-07-25 22:32 ` Martin Vaeth
2021-07-26 19:01 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-07-27 9:28 ` Dr Rainer Woitok
2021-07-27 20:02 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-07-27 20:18 ` Neil Bothwick
2021-07-27 20:32 ` Michael Orlitzky
2021-07-27 20:58 ` Neil Bothwick
2021-07-27 21:06 ` Michael Orlitzky
2021-08-02 10:00 ` Dr Rainer Woitok
2021-08-02 11:54 ` Arve Barsnes
2021-08-02 13:33 ` Dr Rainer Woitok
2021-08-03 11:45 ` Alec Ten Harmsel
2021-08-03 12:44 ` Neil Bothwick
2021-08-04 10:52 ` Dr Rainer Woitok
2021-08-04 11:57 ` Philip Webb
2021-08-04 12:39 ` Nuno Silva
2021-08-04 18:38 ` Walter Dnes
2021-08-05 8:10 ` Dr Rainer Woitok
2021-08-06 7:33 ` Neil Bothwick
2021-08-06 8:55 ` Dr Rainer Woitok
2021-07-29 21:15 ` Martin Vaeth
2021-07-29 21:29 ` Grant Edwards
2021-07-29 21:46 ` Martin Vaeth
2021-07-29 22:55 ` Neil Bothwick
2021-07-30 18:30 ` Martin Vaeth
2021-07-30 20:26 ` Neil Bothwick
2021-07-26 0:39 ` [gentoo-user] " Michael Orlitzky
2021-07-26 0:52 ` Rich Freeman
2021-07-26 1:30 ` Michael Orlitzky
2021-07-25 12:44 ` Dale
2021-07-25 13:22 ` Neil Bothwick
2021-07-25 13:40 ` Dale
2021-07-24 15:03 ` Dale
2021-07-24 21:09 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-07-24 21:22 ` Dale
2021-07-25 7:09 ` Wols Lists
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