please go easy on me; i don’t know how these things work. an update came through for openrc. i type “pamac update -a” into the terminal. at the end of it all, i get this error; ”meson.build:1:0: ERROR: Unknown option: “os”. A full log can be found at /var/tmp/pamac-build-coolguy2/openrc/src/openr…

[image] muzikjock58: thank you for your thoughtful response Please bear with us - we have no idea why you have openrc - and as noted earlier - it is entirely unsupported - custom build from AUR. [image] muzikjock58: i did not install openrc. it was installed as some dependency for a pack…

You did - of course - examine the log [image] muzikjock58: A full log can be found at /var/tmp/pamac-build-coolguy2/openrc/src/openrc-0.63/build/meson-logs/meson-log.txt You will need to consult the source for the PKGBUILD on AUR. Read the comments - ask the maintainer… AUR (en) …

[image] muzikjock58: so i don’t know how an option “os” shows up. Looking at that meson.build file, it is a function to determine, for what architecture and system the program is going to be built. It looks for keywords like “linux”, “bsd”, GNU … but somehow it can’t figure out that the retu…

My thoughts exactly. Why on earth would someone try to force openrc in an arch distro…why? And to successfully do that, you will definitely need a level of knowledge that you currently do not have, if you post such topic in such a way.

[image] Teo: My thoughts exactly. Why on earth would someone try to force openrc in an arch distro…why? There actually are a few Arch derivatives out there that do use openrc instead of systemd, and my guess — I can only speculate, of course — is that the OP was using such a distribution earl…

i did not install openrc. it was installed as some dependency for a package. i came here for help. if i knew the answer to fixing this, i wouldn’t have made the post and this would have been unnecessary. but thank you for your thoughtful response

[image] muzikjock58: it was installed as some dependency for a package. Just an inquiry: do you know (and are willing to share) which one this is? It might help to determine whether the openrc is really needed or whether there is an alternative without that dependency. … something dependin…

[image] muzikjock58: it was installed as some dependency for a package. Running pacman -Qi openrc should list anything depending on this in the Required by: line(s).

It is an AUR package, pacman is no help here. Generally, inexperienced users are advised to stay away from aur. Especially if they are inexperienced and on stable branch. This is exactly why we say aur is not officially supported. There will be no hand-holding in such cases (from me at least).

[image] Teo: It is an AUR package, pacman is no help here. Really? pacman -Qi … would not show it? I have doubts. (quote from “The fifth element” :wink: