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From: Wols Lists <antlists@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!
Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2021 14:01:52
Message-Id: 60FD6E53.90903@youngman.org.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes! by Dale
1 On 25/07/21 14:49, Dale wrote:
2 > The problem here is that a user installed a package outside of
3 > emerge/portage's knowledge.
4
5 No that does *NOT* appear to be the problem.
6
7 The problem is that the user installed - *using* *portage* - a package
8 that satisfied a critical system dependency. Except that they did not
9 intend for it to satisfy that dependency!
10
11 If they HAD installed it outside of portage, they wouldn't have this
12 problem.
13
14 Cheers,
15 Wol

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