Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

[Alan Mackenzie <acm@muc.de>]

Hello, Dale.

On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 10:03:52 -0500, Dale wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> > I'm considering submitting a bug to bugs.gentoo.org, requesting that
> > _all_ installed packages satisfying a virtual get kept.  There is surely
> > something wrong when somebody who just wants to be a user (me) has to
> > read .ebuild files to get normal things done.



> If you can, I'd recommend trying to reach out to the maintainer to see
> if that is expected behavior.  It could be that that is the way it is
> supposed to work.  If that is so tho, I find it odd.

I find it infuriating when ordinary innocent use of something like
emerge can totally break a system.

> Maybe qmail needs a USE flag to pull in daemontools?

I'm actually using s/qmail, tarball direct from its maintainer, since
there's no ebuild for it.  Originally, I had daemontools from the same
place, until I discovered there was an ebuild for it.

> Maybe something else needs changing.  I'd start by reaching out to the
> maintainer.  I guess a bug report would be considered reaching out but
> a email may also work as well. 

Thanks, I submitted a bug report.  I think it's a bug in emerge.  I've
got a nasty feeling there isn't enough sympathy for non-experts for that
bug to go anywhere, but we'll see.

> Just my thoughts.  May not be worth much.  ;-)

> Dale

> :-)  :-) 

-- 
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).