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Bug 144300 - emerge alsa wants to emerge gentoo-sources
Summary: emerge alsa wants to emerge gentoo-sources
Status: RESOLVED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: Portage Development
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Core - Interface (emerge) (show other bugs)
Hardware: All Linux
: High normal (vote)
Assignee: Portage team
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Reported: 2006-08-18 04:16 UTC by Marijn Schouten (RETIRED)
Modified: 2006-08-18 07:30 UTC (History)
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Description Marijn Schouten (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-08-18 04:16:40 UTC 
When I type "emerge -av alsa" emerge asks to remerge gentoo-sources instead of saying that there is no ebuild named alsa, which there isn't. This happens on both my ~amd64 desktop and on my x86 laptop.
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-08-18 04:22:28 UTC 

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 143665 ***
Comment 2 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-08-18 04:23:35 UTC 
Blah, not a dupe.
Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-08-18 04:24:19 UTC 
This is not a bug at all.

# emerge -pv virtual/alsa

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild   R   ] sys-kernel/gentoo-sources-2.6.17-r5  USE="-build symlink (-ultra1)" 0 kB 

# grep alsa /usr/portage/eclass/kernel-2.eclass 
	kernel_is gt 2 4 && PROVIDE="${PROVIDE} virtual/alsa"
Comment 4 Marijn Schouten (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-08-18 05:10:58 UTC 
But shouldn't there be a virtual/alsa euhh atom? Like virtual/xft exists and is in the list when you emerge it.
Comment 5 Petteri Räty (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-08-18 07:28:07 UTC 
(In reply to comment #4)
> But shouldn't there be a virtual/alsa euhh atom? Like virtual/xft exists and is
> in the list when you emerge it.
> 

This is the difference between new and old style virtuals. Old style virtuals just give you the choice it would install instead of virtual/<virtual> that the new virtuals that are actual ebuild gives.