Hello, Rich. On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 10:14:20 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 9:47 AM Alan Mackenzie <[email protected]> wrote:
> > So in these virtual packages, it seems by default the _last_ mentioned > > package in a || ( ... ) construct is the one --depclean keeps. It all > > has the feeling of things not having been properly thought through. > I'm not sure what the default is - most likely PMS just requires that > one of them be kept. PMS? Part of emerge? It seems it's insisting on removing all packages but one which satisfy a virtual. Maybe that is unwise, and it should keep _all_ such packages which are currently installed. > If daemontools (or something that depends on it) is in your @world > that would explain why openrc was selected for removal. OK, that solves the mystery, thanks. > I don't know enough to comment on whether daemontools is a substitute > for openrc. My first complete guess would be that it could either be > used in addition to openrc or on its own. I've only ever used it as part of qmail (the mail transport program), never on its own. I'm loathe to mess around with it, since my email depends on it. But from what I remember about daemontools, it probably could be used as an alternative to openrc, I just don't envisage anybody wanting to do it, though. > Busybox can be a substitute for sysvinit or udev though most people > who have it installed probably don't intend for it to be used that > way. You could have that conversation with the maintainer. I'm considering submitting a bug to bugs.gentoo.org, requesting that _all_ installed packages satisfying a virtual get kept. There is surely something wrong when somebody who just wants to be a user (me) has to read .ebuild files to get normal things done. > -- > Rich -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
