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From: Pacho Ramos <pacho@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 15:44:01
Message-Id: 1524843825.1237.1.camel@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: virtual/init for init process by Zac Medico
1 El vie, 27-04-2018 a las 00:48 -0700, Zac Medico escribió:
2 > On 04/26/2018 11:34 PM, Kent Fredric wrote:
3 > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2018 13:35:15 -0700
4 > > Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o> wrote:
5 > >
6 > > > emerge --depclean, resulting in an unbootable system. Just say-in.
7 > >
8 > > And depclean being very verbose doesn't do many favours here either.
9 > >
10 > > ( I regularly do >500 package depcleans and spotting things that aren't
11 > > meant to be
12 > > culled amongst that list is a bit of a challenge )>
13 >
14 > At least for system packages, it will show a warning like the one shown
15 > here:
16 >
17 > https://bugs.gentoo.org/642484#c0
18 >
19 > Hopefully that message helps those that are paying enough attention.
20 > What can we do for those that overlook the warning message, other than
21 > give them some rescue instructions for making their system boot again?
22
23 Have you think in changing a bit the behavior of depclean to *not* depclean
24 system packages and ask administrator to do something like "emerge -a --depclean
25 --force" to force the depclean of that packages?
26
27 That could help to prevent that mistakes I think
28
29 Thanks

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Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: virtual/init for init process Zac Medico <zmedico@g.o>