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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it
Date: Mon, 14 Sep 2015 07:42:14
Message-Id: 20150914084156.0fef04ac@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] sys-fs/-MERGING-static-dev installed but unable to find it by wabenbau@gmail.com
1 On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 06:36:33 +0200, wabenbau@×××××.com wrote:
2
3 > Maybe the static dev is useful in the case that udev refuses to work
4 > for any reason. :-)
5
6 Probably not, especially if your kernel is built with
7 CONFIG_DEVTMPFS_MOUNT=y. I think the package was intended for building
8 initrds or embedded systems.
9
10 A solution, as you have already found, is to delete the directory
11 in /var/db/pkg/catgory. Wraeth is correct in that this comes from a
12 failed emerge, I've had it happen once or twice and it comes up on this
13 list from time to time. A cleaner solution may be to re-emerge the
14 package, then unmerge it if you don't need it.
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17 --
18 Neil Bothwick
19
20 Windows95: <win-doz-nin-te-fiv> n. 32 bit extensions and a graphical
21 shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded
22 for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand
23 1 bit of competition.