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

[Dale]

Neil Bothwick wrote:
>
> My point is that you are mixing portage and non-portage packages, that's
> why portage is getting confused. I don't know much about daemontools, but
> it seems the sort of package that should not be in @world, but only
> installed as a dependency of something else.
>
> I'm nit suggesting that you should avoid non-portage packages, that may
> be impossible or undesirable, but you should be aware of possible
> consequences. When I need portage to install dependencies to a
> non-portage package, I generally create a set for them, so you could
> create qmail-deps containing both daemontools and openrc and emerge it.
> Then you are safe from either being depcleaned. If you ever decide to
> stop using qmail, you can just unmerge the set and let portage clean up.
>
>

I forgot about the sets option.  That would be another good way to solve
this issue.  It does mean emerge/portage doesn't know why the packages
are needed but it wouldn't remove them because the user told
emerge/portage not too.  That may be better than adding daemontools to
the world file and much easier than creating a ebuild. 

Nice thinking Neil.  :-D 

Dale

:-)  :-)