Since I uninstalled (emerge -C) postifx, /var/cache/edb/visrtuals stills shows it as virtual/mda and virtual/mta (I installed sendmail later on so it should be virtual/mta as stated in its ebuild). I also did emerge -C cdrtools, and then emerge dvdrtools and the entyr in /var/cache/edb/virtuals still reported cdrtools as virutal/cdrtools, while it should be provided by dvdrtools as stated in its ebuild. I changed by hand these settings, but emerge -pvuD k3b stills complains about cdrtools (they conflict with dvdrtools) even if I corrected virtuals entry. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual Results: Portage 2.0.51_rc7 (default-x86-2004.0, gcc-3.4.2, glibc-2.3.4.20040808-r0, 2.6.8.1-ck9 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.8.1-ck9 i686 AMD Athlon(tm) XP 2000+ Gentoo Base System version 1.5.3 Autoconf: sys-devel/autoconf-2.59-r4 Automake: sys-devel/automake-1.8.5-r1 Binutils: sys-devel/binutils-2.15.90.0.1.1-r3 Headers: sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1 Libtools: sys-devel/libtool-1.5.2-r5 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=64-falign-jumps=16 -pipe -ftracer -fprefetch-loop-arrays" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" COMPILER="" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/xkb /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/mozilla/defaults/pref /usr/share/config /usr/share/texmf/dvipdfm/config/ /usr/share/texmf/dvips/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/config/ /usr/share/texmf/tex/platex/config/ /usr/share/texmf/xdvi/ /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-march=athlon-xp -O2 -fomit-frame-pointer -falign-functions=64 -falign-jumps=16 -pipe -ftracer -fprefetch-loop-arrays -fvisibility-inlines-hidden " DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoaddcvs ccache distlocks sandbox" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://mirror.gentoo.no/" MAKEOPTS="-j2" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://rsync.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow 3dnowex X aac acpi acpi4linux aim alsa apm arts audiofile avi berkdb bitmap-fonts bonobo cdparanoia clamav cpdflib crypt cups directfb divx4linux dvd dvdr dvdread eds encode esd evo exiscan-acl faad fam fbcon flac foomaticdb freetype ftp gb gdbm gif gnome gnomedb gphoto2 gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 gtkhtml hal icq imagemagick imap imlib jabber java jpeg jpeg2k kde libg++ libwww live mad maildir mbox mikmod mldonkeypango mmap mmx monkey motif mozilla moznoirc mozsvg mpeg mpeg4 msn nas ncurses network nls nvidia oggvorbis ooo-kde opengl operanom2 oscar oss pam pdflib perl pic png ppds python qt quicktime readline sasl sdl shared sharedmem slang slp speex spell sse ssl svg svga tcltk tcpd tetex theora tiff transcode truetype unicode v4l v4l2 x86 xml2 xmms xprint xv xvid yahoo zlib"
I beg u pardon for not having done my homework well. Anyway checking my /etc/make.profile/virtuals it reports incorrect entries anyway. virtual/mta mail-mta/ssmtp instead of mail-mta/sendmail virtual/cdrtools app-cdr/cdrtools instead of app-cdt/dvdrtools
ok sorry again then since someone pointed me out only now that /etc/make.profile/ is a symlink... I guess it's an invalid bug :( Sorry again
As noted in the post-installation message, /var/cache/edb/virtuals is not used at all in portage-2.0.51. That file is safe to delete.
