Alan,
On Monday, 2021-07-26 19:01:21 +, you wrote:
> ...
> The warning was not very explicit. An explicit warning would have said
> "--depclean is capable of removing critical system packages". As it
> happened I didn't ignore the warning. But some people might.
>
> You seem to see nothin
Hello, Rainer.
On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 11:28:05 +0200, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote:
> Alan,
> On Monday, 2021-07-26 19:01:21 +, you wrote:
> > ...
> > The warning was not very explicit. An explicit warning would have said
> > "--depclean is capable of removing critical system packages". As it
>
On Tue, 27 Jul 2021 20:02:07 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> I know I'm repeating myself, but I don't think an OS should ever delete
> critical parts of itself unless explicitly requested by the user.
> Perhaps not even then, but I wouldn't go that far. The fact that
> portage does this means IMHO
On Tue, 2021-07-27 at 21:18 +0100, Neil Bothwick 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 incorrec
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 o
On Tue, 2021-07-27 at 21:58 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
> 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
I was heading out earlier today, and ran "sudo /usr/sbin/hibernate".
There was occasional thunder, and I did't want my UPS to run out if
power got knocked out while I was away. Now for the LILO/GRUB
differences on reboot...
* LILO would automatically reboot to the kernel that it had been runnin
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