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On Tue, 27 Jul 2021 20:02:07 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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> I know I'm repeating myself, but I don't think an OS should ever delete |
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> critical parts of itself unless explicitly requested by the user. |
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> Perhaps not even then, but I wouldn't go that far. The fact that |
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> portage does this means IMHO that something has gone wrong. |
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Yes it has, but it is not portage. Portage is only doing what you have |
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told it, remove superfluous packages. By including daemontools in @world |
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you have told it, albeit unintentionally, that you want that init system, |
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making openrc superfluous. |
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What has gone wrong is that daemontools is considered an init system when |
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you have not installed it as such, so the issue is with either the |
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daemontools or the virtual. |
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Since you like quotes, here's another - "computers do what you tell them |
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to do, not what you ant them to do". This is a classic example of that, |
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portage is simply demonstrating the principle of GIGO. |
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Instead of continually beating on portage on this list, which will |
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achieve nothing more than a minor waste of electrons, you should be |
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focussing on getting the ebuilds fixed so that portage is no longer given |
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conflicting or incorrect information. |
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You shouldn't give computers conflicting instructions, looked what |
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happened when they did that with the HAL 9000 :-/ |
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Neil Bothwick |
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"I heard Tasha Yar is the Enterprise's expert on Data entry." |
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