On Saturday 7 September 2024 16:27:41 BST Peter Humphrey wrote: > Greetings, > > A recent thread here reminded me of this utility, and I've run it on four > machines since the latest perl update. In three cases it all went > swimmingly, but on the fourth it tried its damnedest to remerge dbus with > USE=systemd, and so start converting the whole system to systemd. This > system is almost identical to one of the others.
Ugh! > I had to put sys-apps/systemd into package.mask, after which perl-cleaner > ran OK, but emerge -c stumbled over nine packages wanting > 'dev-lang/perl:0/5.38=', which was the previous version. Next I remerged > those nine, after which emerge -c removed 98 packages! Most of those seemed > to be useful only on a GUI system, which this one doesn't have (and those > 98 shouldn't have been present anyway), so I let it go ahead. The long > neglected (here) revdep-rebuild didn't want to rebuild anything. > > I really dislike mysteries. Did you run: grep systemd -r /etc/portage/ to find out if some USE="systemd" had sneaked in there? Normally a non- systemd installation would have USE="-systemd" in /etc/portage/make.conf.
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