Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-07-24 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Neil. On Wed, Jul 21, 2021 at 21:27:05 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 21 Jul 2021 22:13:50 +0200, tastytea wrote: > > > emerge included openrc (the only version of it on my system) in the > > > packages it planned to remove. It was kind enough to give me a > > > warning that this "

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-07-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 9:47 AM Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > So in these virtual packages, it seems by default the _last_ mentioned > package in a || ( ... ) construct is the one --depclean keeps. It all > has the feeling of things not having been properly thought through. > I'm not sure what the d

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-07-24 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Rich. On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 10:14:20 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 9:47 AM Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > So in these virtual packages, it seems by default the _last_ mentioned > > package in a || ( ... ) construct is the one --depclean keeps. It all > > has the feeli

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-07-24 Thread Rich Freeman
On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 10:46 AM Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 10:14:20 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 9:47 AM Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > > So in these virtual packages, it seems by default the _last_ mentioned > > > package in a || ( ... ) construct i

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-07-24 Thread Dale
Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > I'm considering submitting a bug to bugs.gentoo.org, requesting that > _all_ installed packages satisfying a virtual get kept. There is surely > something wrong when somebody who just wants to be a user (me) has to > read .ebuild files to get normal things done. > > If y

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-07-24 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello again, Rich. On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 10:58:55 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 10:46 AM Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 10:14:20 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > > > On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 9:47 AM Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > > > So in these virtual packag

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-07-24 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Dale. On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 10:03:52 -0500, Dale wrote: > Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > I'm considering submitting a bug to bugs.gentoo.org, requesting that > > _all_ installed packages satisfying a virtual get kept. There is surely > > something wrong when somebody who just wants to be a u

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-07-24 Thread Dale
Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hello, Dale. > > On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 10:03:52 -0500, Dale wrote: > >> Maybe qmail needs a USE flag to pull in daemontools? > I'm actually using s/qmail, tarball direct from its maintainer, since > there's no ebuild for it. Originally, I had daemontools from the same > p