On Tuesday, 12 May 2020 19:47:21 BST Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > Portage has just unmerged my openrc-0.34.11. I didn't ask it to. I'm > not very happy about this. > > I did > > # emerge -auND @world > > , and after dealing with five packages, it just warned me that openrc > was a critical system package, then went ahead and unmerged it. > > I presume that if I'd tried to reboot, I would have failed. I've > manually emerged openrc again (version 0.42.1), and it looks like it > will work, but I haven't tried it yet. > > What's up with Gentoo at the moment? Uninstalling system critical > packages automatically is a big deal, and shouldn't happen.
I can't see how 'emerge -auND @world' would unmerge any package, let alone a @system package, without first emerging a later version. Have you messed up with your make.profile symlink by any chance?
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