[gentoo-user] Re: --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

[Grant Edwards]

On 2021-07-29, Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de> wrote:

> Indeed, and it won't delete anything crucial for your system, and even
> more, it won't delete anything what you need. But you have to tell
> portage *what* you need and *what* is crucial for your system.
> The handbook contains the instruction how to do this: Put the packages
> you need into the @world file.

I've been using Gentoo for 20 years, and this is the first time I've
heard about the user being required to add the default init system
(e.g. openrc) to the world file to prevent it from being
"accidentally" removed by emerge --depclean.

Is this documented somewhere in the handbook?

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