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 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 damaging to your system"

Most likely, the reason you're seeing this is because the 'system' target contains 'virtual/dev-manager' (defined in /usr/portage/profiles/base/). devfsd satisfies this dependency (as well as udev). Portage apparently isn't smart enough to notice that there's another package installed that satisfies this dependency. You can safely unmerge devfsd if you have udev installed and working.

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