Philip Webb schreef: > 050904 Holly Bostick wrote: > >> I'm surprised no one has said, "Look in /var/cache/edb/virtuals , >> where you will likely see that Joe is set as an in-use >> virtual/editor(s) on your actual system". > > > Yes, it is, along with Vim Gvim & Nano. However, (1) that file still > lists > > virtual/alsa sys-kernel/gentoo-dev-sources virtual/dhcpc > net-misc/dhcpcd virtual/dev-manager sys-fs/devfsd virtual/mpg123 > media-sound/mpg123 > > & (2) it was last updated 050122 . > > Re (1), I don't have a sound card & have removed all the sound > packages, so 'alsa' & 'mpg123' should not be listed: really, sound is > not a requirement of any kind for a working system; I removed Dhcpcd > 041114, as it had ceased to be part of 'system'; Devfsd was one of > the requirements which caused me to ask the question. > > Re (2) & following from (1), the file doesn't seem to be accurate nor > does it seem to be kept upto-date by anything: the only package I > emerged 050122 was Bin86 , needed to handle the MBR. > > So thanx for your fresh point, but it really just raised another > question. > > My basic purpose is to understand how the Gentoo system works & > sometimes -- probably here -- this uncovers strange activities which > have been going on underneath some stone unnoticed by everyone. >
I would be interested in this question as well, since in the course of looking at this file I noticed: sys-fs/devfsd still listed (along with udev) as virtual/dev-manager (devfsd was still installed, so I uninstalled it and the entry was not removed); sys-kernel/mm-sources still listed (along with gentoo-sources) as providing linux-sources and alsa, despite the fact that all versions of mm-sources have long been removed (I never used it, actually). I removed the redundant entries manually, and have so far encountered no problems (and expect none), but I do find it odd that I had to do that at all, and would love to know why. Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
