Re: [gentoo-dev] 2005.1 profile gives devfs as virtual

2005-09-06 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 06 September 2005 17:33, Philip Webb wrote: > Sorry, but that's neither adequate nor polite as a response You've rattled me enough that I only responded to this part. > to the genuine problem which I raised as the original poster. It wasn't a response to the original poster. It was on

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2005.1 profile gives devfs as virtual

2005-09-06 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 06 September 2005 17:33, Philip Webb wrote: > Sorry, but that's neither adequate nor polite as a response > to the genuine problem which I raised as the original poster. > The answer to your question should be clear from the rest of my message > -- the present warning is misleading, as e

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2005.1 profile gives devfs as virtual

2005-09-06 Thread Philip Webb
050906 Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Tuesday 06 September 2005 01:06, Philip Webb wrote: >> 050905 Jason Stubbs wrote: >>> it's possible that unmerging slotted packages of the one key >>> may break your system. How's about not warning >>> if there's more than one installed cat/pkg (rather than cat/pkg-v

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2005.1 profile gives devfs as virtual

2005-09-05 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Tuesday 06 September 2005 01:06, Philip Webb wrote: > 050905 Jason Stubbs wrote: > > it's possible that unmerging slotted packages of the one key > > may break your system. How's about not warning > > if there's more than one installed cat/pkg (rather than cat/pkg-ver) > > satisfying the profile

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2005.1 profile gives devfs as virtual

2005-09-05 Thread Philip Webb
050905 Jason Stubbs wrote: > virtual/editor is a terrible case. :/ > it's possible that unmerging slotted packages of the one key > may break your system. How's about not warning > if there's more than one installed cat/pkg (rather than cat/pkg-ver) > satisfying the profile atom that is being trigg

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2005.1 profile gives devfs as virtual

2005-09-05 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Monday 05 September 2005 19:39, Jason Stubbs wrote: > On Monday 05 September 2005 03:24, Mike Williams wrote: > > On Sunday 04 September 2005 15:11, Philip Webb wrote: > > > Having gone over to Udev, I went to unmerge Devfs & got a big red > > > warning. It appears that the 2005.1 profile gives

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2005.1 profile gives devfs as virtual

2005-09-05 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Monday 05 September 2005 03:24, Mike Williams wrote: > On Sunday 04 September 2005 15:11, Philip Webb wrote: > > Having gone over to Udev, I went to unmerge Devfs & got a big red > > warning. It appears that the 2005.1 profile gives Devfs as a virtual: > > is this an oversight or is there a reas

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2005.1 profile gives devfs as virtual

2005-09-05 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Monday 05 September 2005 04:07, Philip Webb wrote: > 050904 Andrew Gaffney wrote: > > Philip Webb wrote: > >> I actually have > >> /etc/make.profile -> /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.1 > >> So when I enter 'emerge -Cp devfsd', why do I get : > >> "!!! Trying to unmerge package(s

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2005.1 profile gives devfs as virtual

2005-09-04 Thread Philip Webb
050904 Andrew Gaffney wrote: > Philip Webb wrote: >> I actually have >> /etc/make.profile -> /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.1 >> So when I enter 'emerge -Cp devfsd', why do I get : >> "!!! Trying to unmerge package(s) in system profile. 'sys-fs/devfsd' >>!!! This could be damag

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2005.1 profile gives devfs as virtual

2005-09-04 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Sunday 04 September 2005 01:36 pm, Philip Webb wrote: > 050904 Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > > Philip Webb schrieb: > >> /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.1/2.4/virtuals : > > > > You are using the 2.4 subprofile of 2005.1. > > So when I enter 'emerge -Cp devfsd', why do I get : > >

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2005.1 profile gives devfs as virtual

2005-09-04 Thread Mike Williams
On Sunday 04 September 2005 15:11, Philip Webb wrote: > Having gone over to Udev, I went to unmerge Devfs & got a big red warning. > It appears that the 2005.1 profile gives Devfs as a virtual: > is this an oversight or is there a reason behind it ? > I would have assumed that Udev would now be the

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2005.1 profile gives devfs as virtual

2005-09-04 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Philip Webb wrote: 050904 Sebastian Bergmann wrote: Philip Webb schrieb: /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.1/2.4/virtuals : You are using the 2.4 subprofile of 2005.1. The 2.4 subdir is the place I found Devfs mentioned, but I don't seem to be using that subdir. I actually

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2005.1 profile gives devfs as virtual

2005-09-04 Thread Philip Webb
050904 Sebastian Bergmann wrote: > Philip Webb schrieb: >> /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.1/2.4/virtuals : > You are using the 2.4 subprofile of 2005.1. The 2.4 subdir is the place I found Devfs mentioned, but I don't seem to be using that subdir. I actually have /etc/make.profi

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2005.1 profile gives devfs as virtual

2005-09-04 Thread Sebastian Bergmann
Philip Webb schrieb: > /usr/portage/profiles/default-linux/x86/2005.1/2.4/virtuals : You are using the 2.4 subprofile of 2005.1. -- Sebastian Bergmann http://www.sebastian-bergmann.de/ GnuPG Key: 0xB85B5D69 / 27A7 2B14 09E4 98CD 6277 0E5B 6867 C514 B85B 5D69 signature.asc

Re: [gentoo-dev] 2005.1 profile gives devfs as virtual

2005-09-04 Thread Stephen P. Becker
Philip Webb wrote: Having gone over to Udev, I went to unmerge Devfs & got a big red warning. It appears that the 2005.1 profile gives Devfs as a virtual: is this an oversight or is there a reason behind it ? I would have assumed that Udev would now be the required device manager. /usr/portage/

[gentoo-dev] 2005.1 profile gives devfs as virtual

2005-09-04 Thread Philip Webb
Having gone over to Udev, I went to unmerge Devfs & got a big red warning. It appears that the 2005.1 profile gives Devfs as a virtual: is this an oversight or is there a reason behind it ? I would have assumed that Udev would now be the required device manager. /usr/portage/profiles/default-linu