On Tue, 2021-07-27 at 21:58 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > I was thinking more along the lines of a USE flag, as suggested first by > Rich. Add a system-init flag to daemontools, defaulting to off, and have > the virtual depend on daemontools[system-init] and the problem goes away > with the only cost being the unnecessary requirement to rebuild > daemontools. >
True, or it could be dropped from the virtual entirely by the same reasoning: no one is using daemontools on purpose in 2021 (the last release was in 2001). Thinking about it, we should probably just mask all of the DJB packages with a warning that "you are about to waste your time." The few remaining users could package.unmask them. I've been meaning to replace tinydns for a decade but the stupid servers just keep running effortlessly.
