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From: Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o, Kent Fredric <kentnl@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: virtual/init for init process
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2018 07:48:20
Message-Id: 0a2f4f29-0a8a-c00e-430c-cdd0089bdb30@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: virtual/init for init process by Kent Fredric
1 On 04/26/2018 11:34 PM, Kent Fredric wrote:
2 > On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:35:15 -0700
3 > Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 >> emerge --depclean, resulting in an unbootable system. Just say-in.
6 >
7 > And depclean being very verbose doesn't do many favours here either.
8 >
9 > ( I regularly do >500 package depcleans and spotting things that aren't meant to be
10 > culled amongst that list is a bit of a challenge )>
11
12 At least for system packages, it will show a warning like the one shown
13 here:
14
15 https://bugs.gentoo.org/642484#c0
16
17 Hopefully that message helps those that are paying enough attention.
18 What can we do for those that overlook the warning message, other than
19 give them some rescue instructions for making their system boot again?
20 --
21 Thanks,
22 Zac

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: virtual/init for init process Pacho Ramos <pacho@g.o>
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