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 1ECFEm-0007It-4A for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 11:34:09 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j85BTwRO026222; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 11:30:00 GMT Received: from gimli.home.gaima.co.uk (cpc2-hudd1-6-0-cust92.hudd.cable.ntl.com [81.111.209.92]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j85BQAMM003995 for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 11:26:11 GMT Received: (qmail 8767 invoked from network); 5 Sep 2005 12:29:16 +0100 Received: from localhost (127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 5 Sep 2005 12:29:16 +0100 From: Mike Williams To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] why is Joe part of 'system' ? Date: Mon, 5 Sep 2005 12:29:13 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 References: <20050904143004.GB7622@sympatico.ca> <200509041919.48226.mike@gaima.co.uk> <431B49CB.7090704@planet.nl> In-Reply-To: <431B49CB.7090704@planet.nl> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509051229.15914.mike@gaima.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: b3f158f3-f7e6-4655-8a8f-985eeda39017 X-Archives-Hash: de53ec45aa67d71dbca87870f9d346d7 On Sunday 04 September 2005 20:23, Holly Bostick wrote: > Like 7 people have said that Joe provides virtual/editor, which of > course it does. > > What I'm surprised at is that no one has said, > > "Look in /var/cache/edb/virtuals, where you will likely see that Joe is > set as (one of) the in-use virtual/editor(s) on your actual system." Unfortunantly portage no longer uses that, it generates/checks virtuals on the fly I believe. This is the contents on /var/cache/edb on a machine I installed from 2005.1 just recently. nicole ~ # ls -lh /var/cache/edb/ total 12K -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 Sep 1 20:46 counter drwxrwsr-x 4 root portage 4.0K Aug 25 19:13 dep -rw-rw-r-- 1 root portage 1.1K Sep 1 20:46 mtimedb -- Mike Williams -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list