On 25/07/21 12:47, Alan Mackenzie wrote: >> They are, @system is a set of packages and nothing it it will be >> > depcleaned. However, openrc is not part of @system, the virtual is.
> Ah, that's it. So we have critical system packages which aren't part of > @system. I think openrc is a critical system package. > Well, it's not installed on my new system. I doubt it's installed on any new-ish gentoo-gnome systems. So openrc itself can't be critical. It may be critical for *your* system ... :-) Let's rephrase it - "openrc is one of the (optional) packages that satisfied a critical dependency". Your problem is caused because you have explicitly installed an alternate package that satisfies the same critical dependency. Cheers, Wol
