Almost removed my sysvinit

[pygoscelis]

I always was a sysvinit user.

After today's update, emerge --depclean wanted to remove sys-apps/sysvinit. Good thing I caught it and stopped, otherwise I guess my system would become unbootable.

I noticed that sys-apps/openrc did not have either sysvinit or sysv-utils USE flags set. I added sysvinit and remerged sys-apps/openrc. I also added sysvinit to the world file, for a good measure.

What just happened? Did I do something wrong?

[sam_]

OpenRC defaults to having +sysvinit. If that was off, you either turned it off explicitly, or you're using USE=-* which is unsupported.

[pygoscelis]

OpenRC defaults to having +sysvinit. If that was off, you either turned it off explicitly, or you're using USE=-* which is unsupported.

Thanks! Yes apparently I had USE=-*. I probably added it way back when the world was new.

[CaptainBlood]

Sometimes experimental is mandatory indeed:

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 * Found these USE flags for sys-apps/openrc-0.53:
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 + + sysvinit   : control the dependency on sysvinit (experimental) 
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I'd rather favor more explicit:

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 + + sysvinit   : control the dependency on sysvinit (experimental removal) 

Thks 4 ur attention, interest & support.