Hello, Dale. On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 10:03:52 -0500, Dale wrote: > Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > 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. > If you can, I'd recommend trying to reach out to the maintainer to see > if that is expected behavior. It could be that that is the way it is > supposed to work. If that is so tho, I find it odd. I find it infuriating when ordinary innocent use of something like emerge can totally break a system. > Maybe qmail needs a USE flag to pull in daemontools? I'm actually using s/qmail, tarball direct from its maintainer, since there's no ebuild for it. Originally, I had daemontools from the same place, until I discovered there was an ebuild for it. > Maybe something else needs changing. I'd start by reaching out to the > maintainer. I guess a bug report would be considered reaching out but > a email may also work as well. Thanks, I submitted a bug report. I think it's a bug in emerge. I've got a nasty feeling there isn't enough sympathy for non-experts for that bug to go anywhere, but we'll see. > Just my thoughts. May not be worth much. ;-) > Dale > :-) :-) -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
