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 1ECF01-0000xX-Ib for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 11:18:54 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id j85BEVJ4017816; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 11:14:31 GMT Received: from smtp18.wxs.nl (smtp18.wxs.nl [195.121.6.14]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j85BAuq6020245 for ; Mon, 5 Sep 2005 11:10:57 GMT Received: from [10.0.0.150] (ip3e83ab52.speed.planet.nl [62.131.171.82]) by smtp18.wxs.nl (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 Patch 2 (built Jul 14 2004)) with ESMTP id <0IMC001SICJG0V@smtp18.wxs.nl> for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Sep 2005 13:14:05 +0200 (CEST) Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2005 13:14:00 +0200 From: Holly Bostick Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] why is Joe part of 'system' ? In-reply-to: <20050905083238.GA7660@sympatico.ca> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Message-id: <431C2878.1020506@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 X-Accept-Language: nl-NL, nl, en User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050803) X-Enigmail-Version: 0.92.0.0 References: <20050904143004.GB7622@sympatico.ca> <200509041733.03734.mike@gaima.co.uk> <20050904174232.GD7622@sympatico.ca> <200509041919.48226.mike@gaima.co.uk> <431B49CB.7090704@planet.nl> <20050905083238.GA7660@sympatico.ca> X-Archives-Salt: 542d8248-d045-4507-9698-67a640aca1f9 X-Archives-Hash: 8e19d508452bbf9de02f1655944b9d86 Philip Webb schreef: > 050904 Holly Bostick wrote: > >> I'm surprised no one has said, "Look in /var/cache/edb/virtuals , >> where you will likely see that Joe is set as an in-use >> virtual/editor(s) on your actual system". > > > Yes, it is, along with Vim Gvim & Nano. However, (1) that file still > lists > > virtual/alsa sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources virtual/dhcpc > net-misc/dhcpcd virtual/dev-manager sys-fs/devfsd virtual/mpg123 > media-sound/mpg123 > > & (2) it was last updated 050122 . > > Re (1), I don't have a sound card & have removed all the sound > packages, so 'alsa' & 'mpg123' should not be listed: really, sound is > not a requirement of any kind for a working system; I removed Dhcpcd > 041114, as it had ceased to be part of 'system'; Devfsd was one of > the requirements which caused me to ask the question. > > Re (2) & following from (1), the file doesn't seem to be accurate nor > does it seem to be kept upto-date by anything: the only package I > emerged 050122 was Bin86 , needed to handle the MBR. > > So thanx for your fresh point, but it really just raised another > question. > > My basic purpose is to understand how the Gentoo system works & > sometimes -- probably here -- this uncovers strange activities which > have been going on underneath some stone unnoticed by everyone. > I would be interested in this question as well, since in the course of looking at this file I noticed: sys-fs/devfsd still listed (along with udev) as virtual/dev-manager (devfsd was still installed, so I uninstalled it and the entry was not removed); sys-kernel/mm-sources still listed (along with gentoo-sources) as providing linux-sources and alsa, despite the fact that all versions of mm-sources have long been removed (I never used it, actually). I removed the redundant entries manually, and have so far encountered no problems (and expect none), but I do find it odd that I had to do that at all, and would love to know why. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list