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 reason behind it ? > > I would have assumed that Udev would now be the required device > > manager. > > You installed using an earlier profile, obviously, when devfs was the > default for virtual/dev-manager (otherwise you wouldn't have it > installed). Because the profile depends on a virtual any attempt to > remove a package providing that virtual will throw up the warning. > Exactly the same symptom you're seeing with editors on -user.
Yeah, you're right. virtual/editor is a terrible case. :/ Okay, 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 triggered? -- Jason Stubbs
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