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Hello, Rich. |
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On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 10:14:20 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: |
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> On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 9:47 AM Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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> > So in these virtual packages, it seems by default the _last_ mentioned |
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> > package in a || ( ... ) construct is the one --depclean keeps. It all |
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> > has the feeling of things not having been properly thought through. |
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> I'm not sure what the default is - most likely PMS just requires that |
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> one of them be kept. |
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PMS? Part of emerge? |
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It seems it's insisting on removing all packages but one which satisfy a |
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virtual. Maybe that is unwise, and it should keep _all_ such packages |
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which are currently installed. |
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> If daemontools (or something that depends on it) is in your @world |
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> that would explain why openrc was selected for removal. |
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OK, that solves the mystery, thanks. |
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> I don't know enough to comment on whether daemontools is a substitute |
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> for openrc. My first complete guess would be that it could either be |
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> used in addition to openrc or on its own. |
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I've only ever used it as part of qmail (the mail transport program), |
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never on its own. I'm loathe to mess around with it, since my email |
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depends on it. But from what I remember about daemontools, it probably |
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could be used as an alternative to openrc, I just don't envisage anybody |
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wanting to do it, though. |
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> Busybox can be a substitute for sysvinit or udev though most people |
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> who have it installed probably don't intend for it to be used that |
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> way. You could have that conversation with the maintainer. |
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I'm considering submitting a bug to bugs.gentoo.org, requesting that |
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_all_ installed packages satisfying a virtual get kept. There is surely |
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something wrong when somebody who just wants to be a user (me) has to |
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read .ebuild files to get normal things done. |
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> -- |
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> Rich |
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-- |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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