On 2021-07-21 20:06+0000 Alan Mackenzie <a...@muc.de> wrote: > Hello, Gentoo. > > As prompted after the recent perl update, I did # emerge --depclean > -va. > > emerge included openrc (the only version of it on my system) in the > packages it planned to remove. It was kind enough to give me a > warning that this "might" do bad things, but I was somewhat shocked > to see it there at all. I might have accidentally typed 'y' instead > of 'n'. > > Maybe the program wants revenge at me executing so seldomly. Or > something like that. > > But now, my question is how can I trust --depclean even a little bit > after that? Do I have to go through all the package versions, > manually removing the obsolete ones? There are several hundred. :-(
I'm not sure why it would want to remove openrc, as far as I know it should be part of the @system set unless you're on a systemd profile. You can record it in your @world set with `emerge --select --noreplace sys-apps/openrc`. That should prevent accidental removals. Kind regards, tastytea -- Get my PGP key with `gpg --locate-keys tasty...@tastytea.de` or at <https://tastytea.de/tastytea.asc>.
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