OK well it looks like I have been neglecting my admin duties I am going to proceed with removing the alsa-driver and then go from there, Holly thx for the workaround but I do not feel confident in me ;) I will trust the powers that be and make portage happy, my theory being that portage manages a safe secure stable system and why should I choose to break it. Anyway, on further investigation ie. a revdeprebuild and a emerge p --depclean [as suggested] it seems I have a fair few problems. Lots of nasty red messages saying eek!! [mmm I digress it seems, must return to topic] so revdep is complaining at firefox, probably due to my changing from compiled to bin and the depclean would like to remove 134 packages!!
On further reading I think that adding -gnome to /etc/make.conf was hasty [I use xfce but still enjoy a few gnome packages] I will have to do some investigating. On the plus side my daily emerge world has just completed as I was writing this so that is good and sound appears to work though I have not yet rebooted <--loathed to do it, reminds me of days on the dark side. well thx people, I will be back should all go horribly wrong :) stu On 7/18/05, Holly Bostick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stuart Howard schreef: > > thx for the response > > > > I think we missed each other with the point though, currently my sound > > works just fine and I am happy with it as it is [ie. built in] I am > > not sure where the alsa driver in "world" came from unless it is a > > hangover from my initial genkernel instalation. > > Well, there is a compromise solution: > > /etc/portage/profile/package.provided > > I don't have a clue what I tried to install that wanted alsa-driver, but > I added > > media-sound/alsa-driver-1.0.6a (don't actually have to have a version, > afaik, you can just put the package name) > > to the above-mentioned file, and it never bothered me again. > > Basically, you're telling Portage that you've "handled" this-- the > package is installed, just not *by* Portage, so it should just trust > you. And of course you have installed the package-- when you compiled > the kernel, so it's not even like you're lying or anything. > > The upside of this should be that you can uninstall the alsa-driver > package (if it is installed), or do an emerge (-p) --depclean to get rid > of it, or remove it from your world file, and no program that depends on > it should be disturbed (because you've informed Portage that the > equivalent data is available, and Portage trusts you :-) )-- and no > package that wants to depend on it in the future should try to install it. > > HTH, > Holly > -- > gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list > > -- "There are 10 types of people in this world: those who understand binary, those who don't" --Unknown -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
