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PostPosted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 10:27 pm    Post subject: portage wants to remove sys-fs/static-dev [sloved-ish] Reply with quote

A recent update killed my world file, so I am picking up the pieces. One curiosity is that sys-fs/static-dev
is being pulled for removal. It gets the nice
!!! 'sys-fs/static-dev' (virtual/dev-manager) is part of your system profile.
!!! Unmerging it may be damaging to your system.
message. I never installed it and it was certainly never in the world file.

I have been using eudev, so do I really need this? Is this nano all over again?

And what caused portage (or another update) to empty the world file?

EDIT: It seems the package in question is not critical. It is only one of several options.
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PostPosted: Tue Jan 08, 2013 7:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Killed your world file? 8O

Normally, you would emerge --noreplace something like that, but before that's even worth doing, you should make sure your world file isn't getting wiped!
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 2:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

audiodef wrote:
Killed your world file? 8O

Normally, you would emerge --noreplace something like that, but before that's even worth doing, you should make sure your world file isn't getting wiped!


I rebuilt (and backed up) my world file, but it still is getting pulled for removal. Maybe the system set was also affected? In any case, I will refrain from removing anything until I have a chance to to a complete backup.

EDIT: system looks ok.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 3:31 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Doctor,

Not to confuse things here, but I'm running the stable branch and
Code:
laptop boot # eix sys-fs/static-dev
* sys-fs/static-dev
     Available versions:  0.1
     Homepage:            http://bugs.gentoo.org/107875
     Description:         A skeleton, statically managed /dev

laptop boot #

isn't installed :?
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 09, 2013 4:14 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

BillWho wrote:
Doctor,

Not to confuse things here, but I'm running the stable branch and [it] isn't installed :?


OK, thanks. That is actually kind of what I was looking for.

I'll take as evidence it probably is not important to keep and will not kill my system if I remove it. I wonder why it got installed in the first place. Like I said before, I never explicitly installed it. Since I made a point of using eudev, I found it odd that another dev* would be required. However, when depclean starts throwing warnings, I figure its better to ask rather than risk booting up a rescue CD.

Thanks guys.
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