On Sun, 25 Jul 2021 17:25:17 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > The number of people who would lose their systems by this mechanism is > likely very small, but that loss would probably involve a > re-installation. I mean all a victim has to go on is the fact that his > machine won't boot, combined with a memory of having run emerge > --depclean the night before.
So boot into busybox or a rescue disk, look in emerge.log to see what changed and undo it. I think a "Can't find init" message would be fairly easy to understand. > > It seems that Rich's suggestion has the most merit, add a USE flag to > > daemontools to indicate that it is intended to be your service > > manager, and have the virtual require that flag. Yes, it would > > require a one-off rebuild of daemontools for everyone with it > > installed, but the potential for breakage would be removed. > > Another idea I had today is to have two packages, daemontools and > daemontools-init, which would be identical, apart from the fact that > only the second of these would satisfy virtual/service-manager. See below. > I can't help feeling that maybe portage has become too complicated. See above. Actually, this has little to do with portage, which s doing exactly what you told it to do - remove all unnecessary/unwanted packages. The problem is in your configuration that tells portage that openrc is not needed. If you want a simple, clean and reasonably permanent solution that doesn't involve putting openrc in @world, copy the virtual to your local overlay and remove the daemontools dependency. -- Neil Bothwick Bus: (n.) a connector you plug money into, something like a slot machine.
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