From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3375213877A for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 18:12:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6E07BE0BA6; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 18:11:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail0131.smtp25.com (mail0131.smtp25.com [75.126.84.131]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 5B29EE0AD3 for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 18:10:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ccs.covici.com (s-out-001.smtp25.com [67.228.91.90]) by d-out-001.smtp25.com (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id s5RGdUTR009627 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=FAIL) for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 12:39:30 -0400 Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.14.8/8.14.8) with ESMTP id s5RGdTM1029536 for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 12:39:29 -0400 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ruby is borked on my system In-reply-to: <5273836.1RrcDGTvik@wstn> References: <8qev7b-dcc.ln1@graaff.xs4all.nl> <5273836.1RrcDGTvik@wstn> Comments: In-reply-to Peter Humphrey message dated "Fri, 27 Jun 2014 10:13:12 +0100." X-Mailer: MH-E 8.2; nmh 1.3; GNU Emacs 23.4.1 Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 12:39:29 -0400 Message-ID: <29535.1403887169@ccs.covici.com> From: covici@ccs.covici.com X-SpamH-OriginatingIP: 70.109.53.110 X-SpamH-Filter: d-out-001.smtp25.com-s5RGdUTR009627 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Archives-Salt: b4219a40-9317-41d1-b025-d876371e853b X-Archives-Hash: e39562aef0ae88408ac9db18ad57dad9 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Friday 27 June 2014 08:16:08 Hans de Graaff wrote: > > On Thu, 26 Jun 2014 23:36:00 -0400, Ajai Khattri wrote: > > > !!! All ebuilds that could satisfy > > > "virtual/rubygems[ruby_targets_ruby18]" > > > have been masked. > > > > You still have packages on your system that have been installed with the > > ruby18 RUBY_TARGET. It's not immediately clear which package that is from > > the output, but I suspect dev-ruby/rubygems? Re-emerging the packages > > still installed for ruby18 should fix this. > > Some months ago I found myself wondering why I had ruby on this box at all. A > little poking around revealed that the only thing that needed it was thin- > provisioning. Once I'd added -thin to my USE flags and recompiled lvm2 I could > get rid of ruby altogether. > > This won't suit everybody, I know, but maybe it's worth considering. What exactly does this do -- is it for a thin client or something? -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici covici@ccs.covici.com