On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 15:54:14 -0400 David Michael <fedora....@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi, > > This fix might not be so straightforward. A configuration I tested > hit a dependency loop with shadow -> pambase -> systemd -> a bunch of > groups -> shadow. It is possible to bootstrap around by emerging > shadow with no USE flags first, but I don't know how acceptable it is > to introduce new dep loops like this. what happens without your change ? my understanding is that this will be merged in that order: 1. a bunch of groups 2. systemd 3. pambase 4. shadow in which case, the groups from 1. will fail if shadow is not present at that point PS: we have the 'build' useflag for this when building stage1's