On Fri, Apr 27, 2018 at 2:18 PM Zac Medico <zmed...@gentoo.org> wrote:
> Actually, if things like sys-apps/s6 or sys-process/runit remain as > choices for virtual/init, this isn't going to solve the problem of > sys-apps/sysvinit being removed by emerge --depclean. In fact, if > virtual/init is not in the system set, then emerge --depclean will not > even warn about removing a system package when it removes sys-apps/sysvinit. Well, at least we don't have to worry about users accidentally uninstalling openssh, nano, or e2fsprogs (too bad if they use any other filesystem though). :) In general we don't have a great way of telling portage what we're actually using when various packages do more than one thing. If you have busybox installed you could conceivably remove a lot of other packages, but most users don't actually intend for this to happen. A USE flag that just pulls in a dep seems like the least evil solution unless somebody wants to come up with a more general one. -- Rich
