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From: "Stephen P. Becker" <geoman@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] 2005.1 profile gives devfs as virtual
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2005 14:22:29
Message-Id: 431B0292.6020605@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] 2005.1 profile gives devfs as virtual by Philip Webb
1 Philip Webb wrote:
2 > Having gone over to Udev, I went to unmerge Devfs & got a big red warning.
3 > It appears that the 2005.1 profile gives Devfs as a virtual:
4 > is this an oversight or is there a reason behind it ?
5 > I would have assumed that Udev would now be the required device manager.
6 >
7 > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.1/2.4/virtuals :
8 >
9 > virtual/dev-manager sys-fs/devfsd
10 >
11
12 That is because udev doesn't work with a 2.4 kernel.
13
14 -Steve
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