Re: [gentoo-user] format usb as ext4

2024-10-25 Thread Michael
On Thursday 24 October 2024 14:11:12 BST syscon edm wrote: > Yes, you are right. > doing "mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1" worked, but I could only manually mount, > for automount it has to be entire partition "mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda" If you want to run "mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1" then first you must create a partitio

[gentoo-user] Why does bind-tools 9.18 depend on bind?

2024-10-25 Thread Grant Edwards
Portage suddenly wants to install net-dns/bind so it can update bind-tools from 9.16 to 9.18. I've always had bind-tools installed, but it has never required that I install the bind server and its dependencies (for which I have no use). Older versions of bind-tools didn't require bind. The ebuilds

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does bind-tools 9.18 depend on bind?

2024-10-25 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On Fri, 2024-10-25 at 13:08 +0200, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: > > > > It's a Go package though, so it will quietly install a mountain a > > random outdated static libraries from github. > > What? No, it will not. Those dependencies are absolutely not installed, > they are only used for building & l

[gentoo-user] Re: Why does bind-tools 9.18 depend on bind?

2024-10-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2024-10-25, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On Fri, 2024-10-25 at 13:08 +0200, Holger Hoffstätte wrote: >> > >> > It's a Go package though, so it will quietly install a mountain a >> > random outdated static libraries from github. >> >> What? No, it will not. Those dependencies are absolutely not i

[gentoo-user] Re: Why does bind-tools 9.18 depend on bind?

2024-10-25 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2024-10-25, Michael Orlitzky wrote: > On 2024-10-25 00:47:27, Grant Edwards wrote: >> > >> > Try net-dns/doggo[2] >> >> Cool, and it doens't want to install 4 other new packages like >> bind-tools does. [OK, two are just account/group packages, so it's >> not quite as bad as it sounds.] > > I

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean and openrc [Was: Wayland! Beware of!]

2024-10-25 Thread Walter Dnes
On Fri, Oct 25, 2024 at 07:22:01PM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote > > There doesn't appear to be anything better in emerge - I've looked but > not found an emerge action to unmerge specific packages only, apart from > --unmerge. Why is there not a version of --unmerge which does safety > checks firs

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Why does bind-tools 9.18 depend on bind?

2024-10-25 Thread Michael Orlitzky
On 2024-10-25 00:47:27, Grant Edwards wrote: > > > > Try net-dns/doggo[2] > > Cool, and it doens't want to install 4 other new packages like > bind-tools does. [OK, two are just account/group packages, so it's > not quite as bad as it sounds.] It's a Go package though, so it will quietly install

[gentoo-user] Re: Why does bind-tools 9.18 depend on bind?

2024-10-25 Thread Holger Hoffstätte
On 2024-10-25 11:59, Michael Orlitzky wrote: On 2024-10-25 00:47:27, Grant Edwards wrote: Try net-dns/doggo[2] Cool, and it doens't want to install 4 other new packages like bind-tools does. [OK, two are just account/group packages, so it's not quite as bad as it sounds.] It's a Go package

Re: [gentoo-user] --depclean and openrc [Was: Wayland! Beware of!]

2024-10-25 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hello, Eli. On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 15:36:43 -0400, Eli Schwartz wrote: > On 9/24/24 2:53 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >> Regarding the daemontools situation: > >> """ > >> for example with --depclean preserving packages in system, as well as world > >> """ > >> Is not a valid suggestion, since -