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Hello, Dale. |
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On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 10:03:52 -0500, Dale wrote: |
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> Alan Mackenzie wrote: |
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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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> If you can, I'd recommend trying to reach out to the maintainer to see |
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> if that is expected behavior. It could be that that is the way it is |
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> supposed to work. If that is so tho, I find it odd. |
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I find it infuriating when ordinary innocent use of something like |
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emerge can totally break a system. |
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> Maybe qmail needs a USE flag to pull in daemontools? |
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I'm actually using s/qmail, tarball direct from its maintainer, since |
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there's no ebuild for it. Originally, I had daemontools from the same |
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place, until I discovered there was an ebuild for it. |
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> Maybe something else needs changing. I'd start by reaching out to the |
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> maintainer. I guess a bug report would be considered reaching out but |
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> a email may also work as well. |
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Thanks, I submitted a bug report. I think it's a bug in emerge. I've |
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got a nasty feeling there isn't enough sympathy for non-experts for that |
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bug to go anywhere, but we'll see. |
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> Just my thoughts. May not be worth much. ;-) |
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> Dale |
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> :-) :-) |
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Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). |
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