From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1ECEPZ-0007kL-GG for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 10:41:13 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j85AbKHx009403; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 10:37:20 GMT Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j85AZb0v018023 for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 10:35:38 GMT Received: from zh034160.ppp.dion.ne.jp ([222.3.34.160] helo=opteron246.suzuki-stubbs.home) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtpa (Exim 4.43) id 1ECENB-0001Op-0h for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 10:38:45 +0000 Received: by opteron246.suzuki-stubbs.home (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 712C3102DC1; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 19:39:44 +0900 (JST) From: Jason Stubbs To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] 2005.1 profile gives devfs as virtual Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 19:39:42 +0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.90 References: <20050904141154.GA7622@sympatico.ca> <200509041924.52828.mike@gaima.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <200509041924.52828.mike@gaima.co.uk> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart2381773.jJyCyQ48Yv"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200509051939.44309.jstubbs@gentoo.org> X-Archives-Salt: c754783b-d2d6-431e-bbab-582f9ac775ed X-Archives-Hash: 9bf06b3311a763dddf73934b0b32148a --nextPart2381773.jJyCyQ48Yv Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline 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 brea= k=20 your system. How's about not warning if there's more than one installed=20 cat/pkg (rather than cat/pkg-ver) satisfying the profile atom that is being= =20 triggered? =2D-=20 Jason Stubbs --nextPart2381773.jJyCyQ48Yv Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBDHCBwxvWNPsk/ZP4RAjp+AKCk23h7RBKSQBdl4mqROZyXq+D2fACfZrC5 ylHW/PND2U3mkjitdUB6Apo= =i4WF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart2381773.jJyCyQ48Yv-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list