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swat
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 27, 2002 10:30 am    Post subject: Disabling Grub Reply with quote

Hi,

Everytime I run emerge world or system - it tries to install grub. I do not use grub, i do not want to use grub, I have no need for grub.

How do i stop it tryign to install ??

I've put -grub in my USE tag

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 27, 2002 10:56 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

check for an entry for grub in /var/cache/edb/world. If you find one, try removing it and see what happens.
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 27, 2002 11:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nope - there's no entry in there :(

Any other ideas?

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 27, 2002 12:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is it providing anything in /var/cache/edb/virtuals?
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PostPosted: Sat Jul 27, 2002 12:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

rac wrote:
Is it providing anything in /var/cache/edb/virtuals?


Nope

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 27, 2002 1:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

OK, try commenting out the following line if it exists in your /etc/make.profile/packages:
Code:
*sys-aps/grub

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PostPosted: Sat Jul 27, 2002 1:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

That workeed :D
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