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From: "»Q«" <boxcars@×××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: *dev-less gentoo
Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 20:17:50
Message-Id: 20160118141702.3dd6a258@sepulchrave.remarqs
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] *dev-less gentoo by karl@aspodata.se
1 On Mon, 18 Jan 2016 19:48:58 +0100 (CET)
2 karl@××××××××.se wrote:
3
4 > Francisco Ares:
5 > > 2016-01-18 15:15 GMT-02:00 <karl@××××××××.se>:
6 > >
7 > > > # emerge -auDN @system
8 > > > ...
9 > > > [ebuild N ] virtual/dev-manager-0
10 > > >
11 > > > How can I get rid of dev-manager-0 from @system ?
12 > ...
13 > > Try updating to a new kernel.
14 > >
15 > > I'm saying this because of the output of equery d
16 > > virtual/dev-manager on my system:
17 > >
18 > > ~ $ equery d virtual/dev-manager
19 > > * These packages depend on virtual/dev-manager:
20 > > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.18.9 (virtual/dev-manager)
21 > > sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-3.18.12 (virtual/dev-manager)
22 >
23 > Not so here:
24 >
25 > # equery d virtual/dev-manager
26 > * These packages depend on virtual/dev-manager:
27 > #
28 >
29 > ///
30 >
31 > What info is there on @system ?
32 > I can change what's in @world, it seems to be the content of
33 > /var/lib/portage/world. Is there a similar file for @system ?
34
35 It's in /usr/portage/profiles/base/packages -- I think that will be
36 overwritten when profiles are updated, so I don't think it helps you.
37
38 Would putting virtual/dev-manager into packages.provided work to solve
39 your problem? (I phrase it as a question because I've never used
40 packages.provided.)

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