Re: [gentoo-dev] 2005.1 profile gives devfs as virtual

[Jason Stubbs]

On Monday 05 September 2005 19:39, Jason Stubbs wrote:
> On Monday 05 September 2005 03:24, Mike Williams wrote:
> > On Sunday 04 September 2005 15:11, Philip Webb wrote:
> > > Having gone over to Udev, I went to unmerge Devfs & got a big red
> > > warning. It appears that the 2005.1 profile gives Devfs as a virtual:
> > > is this an oversight or is there a reason behind it ?
> > > I would have assumed that Udev would now be the required device
> > > manager.
> >
> > You installed using an earlier profile, obviously, when devfs was the
> > default for virtual/dev-manager (otherwise you wouldn't have it
> > installed). Because the profile depends on a virtual any attempt to
> > remove a package providing that virtual will throw up the warning.
> > Exactly the same symptom you're seeing with editors on -user.
>
> Yeah, you're right. virtual/editor is a terrible case. :/
>
> Okay, it's possible that unmerging slotted packages of the one key may
> break your system. How's about not warning if there's more than one
> installed cat/pkg (rather than cat/pkg-ver) satisfying the profile atom
> that is being triggered?

This patch follows that rule. Specifically, only one provider yields a 
warning (even with >1 slotted installation of said package) and multiple 
providers doesn't. Care to give it a go?

-- 
Jason Stubbs