From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5890F13933E for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2021 20:06:20 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 55CC4E0AB6; Wed, 21 Jul 2021 20:06:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.muc.de (colin.muc.de [193.149.48.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5289BE0AAE for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2021 20:06:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 81356 invoked by uid 3782); 21 Jul 2021 20:06:10 -0000 Received: from acm.muc.de (p4fe15931.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [79.225.89.49]) (using STARTTLS) by colin.muc.de (tmda-ofmipd) with ESMTP; Wed, 21 Jul 2021 22:06:10 +0200 Received: (qmail 13412 invoked by uid 1000); 21 Jul 2021 20:06:10 -0000 Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 20:06:10 +0000 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes! Message-ID: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Submission-Agent: TMDA/1.3.x (Ph3nix) From: Alan Mackenzie X-Primary-Address: acm@muc.de X-Archives-Salt: 5e47b352-d370-4dc1-a4b7-3b6e27ecb808 X-Archives-Hash: 6ee7297b04908e76db126ab8cf7702ef Hello, Gentoo. As prompted after the recent perl update, I did # emerge --depclean -va. emerge included openrc (the only version of it on my system) in the packages it planned to remove. It was kind enough to give me a warning that this "might" do bad things, but I was somewhat shocked to see it there at all. I might have accidentally typed 'y' instead of 'n'. Maybe the program wants revenge at me executing so seldomly. Or something like that. But now, my question is how can I trust --depclean even a little bit after that? Do I have to go through all the package versions, manually removing the obsolete ones? There are several hundred. :-( What do I do? Help! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).