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On Monday 05 September 2005 03:24, Mike Williams wrote: |
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> On Sunday 04 September 2005 15:11, Philip Webb wrote: |
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> > Having gone over to Udev, I went to unmerge Devfs & got a big red |
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> > warning. It appears that the 2005.1 profile gives Devfs as a virtual: |
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> > is this an oversight or is there a reason behind it ? |
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> > I would have assumed that Udev would now be the required device |
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> > manager. |
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> You installed using an earlier profile, obviously, when devfs was the |
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> default for virtual/dev-manager (otherwise you wouldn't have it |
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> installed). Because the profile depends on a virtual any attempt to |
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> remove a package providing that virtual will throw up the warning. |
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> Exactly the same symptom you're seeing with editors on -user. |
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Yeah, you're right. virtual/editor is a terrible case. :/ |
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Okay, it's possible that unmerging slotted packages of the one key may break |
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your system. How's about not warning if there's more than one installed |
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cat/pkg (rather than cat/pkg-ver) satisfying the profile atom that is being |
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triggered? |
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Jason Stubbs |
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