Re: [gentoo-dev] 2005.1 profile gives devfs as virtual

[Jason Stubbs <jstubbs@gentoo.org>]

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On Monday 05 September 2005 03:24, Mike Williams wrote:
> On Sunday 04 September 2005 15:11, Philip Webb wrote:
> > Having gone over to Udev, I went to unmerge Devfs & got a big red
> > warning. It appears that the 2005.1 profile gives Devfs as a virtual:
> > is this an oversight or is there a reason behind it ?
> > I would have assumed that Udev would now be the required device
> > manager.
>
> You installed using an earlier profile, obviously, when devfs was the
> default for virtual/dev-manager (otherwise you wouldn't have it
> installed). Because the profile depends on a virtual any attempt to
> remove a package providing that virtual will throw up the warning.
> Exactly the same symptom you're seeing with editors on -user.

Yeah, you're right. virtual/editor is a terrible case. :/

Okay, it's possible that unmerging slotted packages of the one key may break 
your system. How's about not warning if there's more than one installed 
cat/pkg (rather than cat/pkg-ver) satisfying the profile atom that is being 
triggered?

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Jason Stubbs

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