Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-07-21 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 21 Jul 2021 22:13:50 +0200, tastytea wrote: > > 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 mig

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-07-21 Thread tastytea
On 2021-07-21 20:06+ Alan Mackenzie 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

[gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove openrc. Yikes!

2021-07-21 Thread Alan Mackenzie
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

Re: [gentoo-user] how to losen restrictions on root password

2021-07-21 Thread Dale
antlists wrote: > On 21/07/2021 02:24, John Covici wrote: >> On Tue, 20 Jul 2021 18:52:43 -0400, >> antlists wrote: >>> >>> On 20/07/2021 23:37, John Covici wrote: Hi.  After a recent update, I discovered I could not log in as root on my local console.  Soome software put lots of restrict

Re: [gentoo-user] how to losen restrictions on root password

2021-07-21 Thread antlists
On 21/07/2021 02:24, John Covici wrote: On Tue, 20 Jul 2021 18:52:43 -0400, antlists wrote: On 20/07/2021 23:37, John Covici wrote: Hi. After a recent update, I discovered I could not log in as root on my local console. Soome software put lots of restrictions on how I could choose the passwo