On Tue, 27 Jul 2021 16:32:04 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > Instead of continually beating on portage on this list, which will > > achieve nothing more than a minor waste of electrons, you should be > > focussing on getting the ebuilds fixed so that portage is no longer > > given conflicting or incorrect information. > > In most cases this is good advice. The problem with djbdns/qmail is > that they are abandoned upstream, and kept alive in Gentoo only by a > patchwork of... well, patches.
I was thinking more along the lines of a USE flag, as suggested first by Rich. Add a system-init flag to daemontools, defaulting to off, and have the virtual depend on daemontools[system-init] and the problem goes away with the only cost being the unnecessary requirement to rebuild daemontools. -- Neil Bothwick The word 'Windows' is a word out of an old dialect of the Apaches. It means: 'White man staring through glass-screen onto an hourglass...')
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