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 8AC8113877A for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 09:13:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4944BE0AEB; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 09:13:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smarthost01b.mail.zen.net.uk (smarthost01b.mail.zen.net.uk [212.23.1.3]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3593DE09F7 for ; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 09:13:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [82.69.80.10] (helo=wstn.localnet) by smarthost01b.mail.zen.net.uk with esmtpsa (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1X0SDa-000AdY-F1 for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 27 Jun 2014 09:13:14 +0000 From: Peter Humphrey 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 Message-ID: <5273836.1RrcDGTvik@wstn> Organization: at home User-Agent: KMail/4.12.5 (Linux/3.12.21-gentoo-r1; KDE/4.12.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <8qev7b-dcc.ln1@graaff.xs4all.nl> References: <8qev7b-dcc.ln1@graaff.xs4all.nl> 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 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Originating-smarthost01b-IP: [82.69.80.10] X-Archives-Salt: 1bf8d8f7-4af1-4ddb-b12c-b6493721c55c X-Archives-Hash: 6b1c0e74969b97a3fa4003f0b53455e2 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