Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Removal of virtual/modutils
Date: Sun, 09 Aug 2020 09:56:52
Message-Id: 3073700.aeNJFYEL58@peak
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Removal of virtual/modutils by Alarig Le Lay
1 On Sunday, 9 August 2020 10:47:10 BST Alarig Le Lay wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > On Sun 09 Aug 2020 10:43:12 GMT, Peter Humphrey wrote:
5 > > Morning all,
6 > >
7 > > Today I see that virtual/modutils has been masked for removal in 30 days.
8 > > The notice says "no consumers in the tree", but app-emulation/virtualbox-
9 > > modules-6.1.12 requires virtual/modutils here.
10 > >
11 > > I don't know where that dependency comes from: I can't see any reference
12 > > in
13 > > the ebuild.
14 > >
15 > > Is my virtualbox going to stop working? If so I'll have to stop running at
16 > > least some of my BOINC projects - and they were the reason for buying such
17 > > a powerful machine in the first place.
18 >
19 > Update your tree, -r1 doesn’t depend on it.
20
21 Hmm. I had only just done that, but on doing it again I see you're right.
22 Unfortunate timing.
23
24 --
25 Regards,
26 Peter.