Re: [Dng] Use/misuse of depends

2015-01-16 Thread KatolaZ
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 07:29:02PM +0100, Tomasz Kundera wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 5:26 PM, KatolaZ kato...@freaknet.org wrote: To be honest, I think there is no final solution to this issue, unless you opt for a completely centralised (and nazist, in a good way) package

[Dng] Itches and scratches

2015-01-16 Thread Gordon Haverland
The reason Devuan exists, is an itch named systemd. Should we be looking for other itches? I happened across one, in trying to get debootstrap to run on Gentoo (to make a chroot jail). If something corrupts the status or available files in /var/lib/dpkg the system is hooped, and re-install may

Re: [Dng] Itches and scratches

2015-01-16 Thread Adam Borowski
On Fri, Jan 16, 2015 at 02:54:32PM -0700, Gordon Haverland wrote: I happened across one, in trying to get debootstrap to run on Gentoo (to make a chroot jail). If something corrupts the status How did you manage to corrupt them without hardware issues? dpkg goes really, really paranoid there