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On 2021-07-21 20:06+0000 Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de> wrote: |
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> Hello, Gentoo. |
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> As prompted after the recent perl update, I did # emerge --depclean |
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> -va. |
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> emerge included openrc (the only version of it on my system) in the |
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> packages it planned to remove. It was kind enough to give me a |
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> warning that this "might" do bad things, but I was somewhat shocked |
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> to see it there at all. I might have accidentally typed 'y' instead |
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> of 'n'. |
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> Maybe the program wants revenge at me executing so seldomly. Or |
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> something like that. |
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> But now, my question is how can I trust --depclean even a little bit |
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> after that? Do I have to go through all the package versions, |
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> manually removing the obsolete ones? There are several hundred. :-( |
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I'm not sure why it would want to remove openrc, as far as I know it |
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should be part of the @system set unless you're on a systemd profile. |
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You can record it in your @world set with `emerge --select --noreplace |
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sys-apps/openrc`. That should prevent accidental removals. |
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Kind regards, tastytea |
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Get my PGP key with `gpg --locate-keys tastytea@××××××××.de` or at |
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<https://tastytea.de/tastytea.asc>. |
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