Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: virtual/init for init process

[Zac Medico]

On 04/27/2018 08:43 AM, Pacho Ramos wrote:
> El vie, 27-04-2018 a las 00:48 -0700, Zac Medico escribió:
>> On 04/26/2018 11:34 PM, Kent Fredric wrote:
>>> On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:35:15 -0700
>>> Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
>>>
>>>> emerge --depclean, resulting in an unbootable system. Just say-in.
>>>
>>> And depclean being very verbose doesn't do many favours here either.
>>>
>>> ( I regularly do >500 package depcleans and spotting things that aren't
>>> meant to be
>>>  culled amongst that list is a bit of a challenge )>
>>
>> At least for system packages, it will show a warning like the one shown
>> here:
>>
>>    https://bugs.gentoo.org/642484#c0
>>
>> Hopefully that message helps those that are paying enough attention.
>> What can we do for those that overlook the warning message, other than
>> give them some rescue instructions for making their system boot again?
>
> Have you think in changing a bit the behavior of depclean to *not* depclean
> system packages and ask administrator to do something like "emerge -a --depclean
> --force" to force the depclean of that packages?
>
> That could help to prevent that mistakes I think

I don't want this system packages warning to do anything other that
change the display, since it's really based on heuristics. The sysvinit
package wouldn't be removed if it was the only provider of virtual/init,
and it only triggers the warning because it's the preferred provider.
-- 
Thanks,
Zac