[gentoo-user] GRUB bootup ftom hibernation question

2021-07-27 Thread Walter Dnes
I was heading out earlier today, and ran "sudo /usr/sbin/hibernate". There was occasional thunder, and I did't want my UPS to run out if power got knocked out while I was away. Now for the LILO/GRUB differences on reboot... * LILO would automatically reboot to the kernel that it had been

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

2021-07-27 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Tue, 2021-07-27 at 21:58 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > I was thinking more along the lines of a USE flag, as suggested first by > Rich. Add a system-init flag to daemontools, defaulting to off, and have > the virtual depend on daemontools[system-init] and the problem goes away > with the

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

2021-07-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 27 Jul 2021 16:32:04 -0400, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > > Instead of continually beating on portage on this list, which will > > achieve nothing more than a minor waste of electrons, you should be > > focussing on getting the ebuilds fixed so that portage is no longer > > given conflicting

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

2021-07-27 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Tue, 2021-07-27 at 21:18 +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > Instead of continually beating on portage on this list, which will > achieve nothing more than a minor waste of electrons, you should be > focussing on getting the ebuilds fixed so that portage is no longer given > conflicting or

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

2021-07-27 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Tue, 27 Jul 2021 20:02:07 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > I know I'm repeating myself, but I don't think an OS should ever delete > critical parts of itself unless explicitly requested by the user. > Perhaps not even then, but I wouldn't go that far. The fact that > portage does this means

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

2021-07-27 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Rainer. On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 11:28:05 +0200, Dr Rainer Woitok wrote: > Alan, > On Monday, 2021-07-26 19:01:21 +, you wrote: > > ... > > The warning was not very explicit. An explicit warning would have said > > "--depclean is capable of removing critical system packages". As it

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

2021-07-27 Thread Dr Rainer Woitok
Alan, On Monday, 2021-07-26 19:01:21 +, you wrote: > ... > The warning was not very explicit. An explicit warning would have said > "--depclean is capable of removing critical system packages". As it > happened I didn't ignore the warning. But some people might. > > You seem to see