On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 22:39:13 +0000, Lucio Sauer wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 06:13:32PM +0100, Andrew Nowa Ammerlaan wrote:
> > Previously sys-kernel/installkernel was implicitly installed on many systems
> > via a dependency in sys-apps/debianutils. This dependency was toggled
> > by the "installkernel" USE flag, and enabled by default.
> > 
> > sys-apps/debianutils was in turn pulled in by app-misc/ca-certificates,
> > an essential package installed on many systems. However, this
> > dependency was recently removed. 
>
> In my opinion, the last sentence reads as if app-misc/ca-certificates was
> recently removed. I suggest rewording the passage as follows:
> 
> Until recently, sys-apps/debianutils was in turn pulled in by
> app-misc/ca-certificates, an essential package installed on many systems. 
> This is no longer the case.
>
> > As a result many users may find that ...
> 

Agreed. I was confused for a second reading it since it was the first
I'd heard of ca-certificates being removed before I realized that was
not the case at all.

- Oskari

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