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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@prh.myzen.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Ruby is borked on my system
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2014 10:13:12 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5273836.1RrcDGTvik@wstn> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8qev7b-dcc.ln1@graaff.xs4all.nl>

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.

-- 
Regards
Peter



  reply	other threads:[~2014-06-27  9:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-06-27  3:36 [gentoo-user] Ruby is borked on my system Ajai Khattri
2014-06-27  6:16 ` [gentoo-user] " Hans de Graaff
2014-06-27  9:13   ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2014-06-27 16:39     ` covici
2014-06-27 20:58       ` Neil Bothwick
2014-06-28  9:25         ` Peter Humphrey
2014-06-28 15:19       ` Tom H
2014-06-27 16:49   ` Ajai Khattri

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