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 1Ducbh-00038G-B7 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:52:57 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j6IKnK1I029093; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:49:20 GMT Received: from smtp15.wxs.nl (smtp15.wxs.nl [195.121.6.54]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j6IKbx3c031154 for ; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 20:38:00 GMT Received: from [10.0.0.150] (ip3e83ab52.speed.planet.nl [62.131.171.82]) by smtp15.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IJU008UKC0RPO@smtp15.wxs.nl> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Jul 2005 22:38:51 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2005 22:38:38 +0200 From: Holly Bostick Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] alsa-driver emerge error In-reply-to: To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <42DC134E.4050201@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=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT X-Accept-Language: nl-NL, nl, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050624) X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 References: <342e109050718113217b45ff9@mail.gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: d6a82205-8296-4e30-8d1c-6277dd064b95 X-Archives-Hash: fb516cdfcaa1f384aa438817cdcc7e13 Stuart Howard schreef: > thx for the response > > I think we missed each other with the point though, currently my sound > works just fine and I am happy with it as it is [ie. built in] I am > not sure where the alsa driver in "world" came from unless it is a > hangover from my initial genkernel instalation. Well, there is a compromise solution: /etc/portage/profile/package.provided I don't have a clue what I tried to install that wanted alsa-driver, but I added media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.6a (don't actually have to have a version, afaik, you can just put the package name) to the above-mentioned file, and it never bothered me again. Basically, you're telling Portage that you've "handled" this-- the package is installed, just not *by* Portage, so it should just trust you. And of course you have installed the package-- when you compiled the kernel, so it's not even like you're lying or anything. The upside of this should be that you can uninstall the alsa-driver package (if it is installed), or do an emerge (-p) --depclean to get rid of it, or remove it from your world file, and no program that depends on it should be disturbed (because you've informed Portage that the equivalent data is available, and Portage trusts you :-) )-- and no package that wants to depend on it in the future should try to install it. HTH, Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list