Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I prevent gentoo-sources being installed?
Date: Sun, 24 Mar 2013 20:05:32
Message-Id: 20130324200504.53b7c1bc@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How can I prevent gentoo-sources being installed? by Felix Kuperjans
1 On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 20:27:00 +0100, Felix Kuperjans wrote:
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3 > > Stage 3 archives only contains necessary packages for which there is
4 > > no choice. They don't include a cron daemon or a system logger for
5 > > that reason, so they won't include kernel sources.
6 > >
7 > >
8 > AFAICT stage3 archives include everything of @system.
9
10 They don't. That's why you have to satisfy some virtuals manually at
11 install time.
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13 > virtual/dev-manager usually pulls in udev, which might pull in kmod
14 > (depending on USE flags) and virtual/modutils is part of system, which
15 > by default uses kmod.
16 > So kmod is part of system and it then requires virtual/linux-sources as
17 > a dependency, so they are now part of system as well.
18
19 As has already been explained, this is an unintended side effect which is
20 being fixed, it shouldn't affect the stage 3 tarballs.
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24 Neil Bothwick
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