On 27/02/2024 03:28, Oskari Pirhonen wrote:
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


Yes I see how this wording can be confusing. Fixed locally and in the GitHub PR, Thanks.

Best regards,
Andrew

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