Re: [gentoo-user] Change from udev to eudev?

[Dale]

wabe wrote:
> Hi,
>
> emerge wants to install eudev. Now I wonder if this is ok
> and if so, how I can do this without breaking my system.
>
> Any help is greatly appreciated.
>
> This is the output from emerge:
>
>
> ~# emerge -avuD --verbose-conflicts --keep-going --changed-use --with-bdeps=y --backtrack=999 @world
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild  N     ] sys-fs/eudev-3.1.5::gentoo  USE="hwdb kmod -introspection -rule-generator (-selinux) -static-libs {-test}" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" 1.705 KiB
> [ebuild  N     ] dev-libs/libgudev-230::gentoo  USE="-debug -introspection -static-libs" ABI_X86="(64) -32 (-x32)" 0 KiB
> [blocks B      ] sys-fs/udev ("sys-fs/udev" is blocking sys-fs/eudev-3.1.5)
> [blocks B      ] sys-fs/udev[gudev(-)] ("sys-fs/udev[gudev(-)]" is blocking dev-libs/libgudev-230)
> [blocks B      ] dev-libs/libgudev ("dev-libs/libgudev" is blocking sys-fs/udev-216)
>
> Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 1.705 KiB
> Conflict: 3 blocks (3 unsatisfied)
>
>  * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
>  * installed at the same time on the same system.
>
>   (sys-fs/udev-216:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
>     >=sys-fs/udev-208-r1:0/0[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?,gudev(-),introspection(-)?,static-libs?] (>=sys-fs/udev-208-r1:0/0[abi_x86_64(-),gudev(-)]) required by (virtual/libgudev-215-r3:0/0::gentoo, installed)
>     >=sys-fs/udev-208-r1:0/0[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?,static-libs?] (>=sys-fs/udev-208-r1:0/0[abi_x86_64(-)]) required by (virtual/libudev-215-r1:0/1::gentoo, installed)
>
>   (dev-libs/libgudev-230:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
>     dev-libs/libgudev:0/0[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?,introspection?,static-libs?] (dev-libs/libgudev:0/0[abi_x86_64(-)]) required by (virtual/libgudev-215-r3:0/0::gentoo, installed)
>
>   (sys-fs/eudev-3.1.5:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
>     >=sys-fs/eudev-1.3 required by (virtual/udev-215:0/0::gentoo, installed)
>     >=sys-fs/eudev-1.3:0/0[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?,static-libs?] (>=sys-fs/eudev-1.3:0/0[abi_x86_64(-)]) required by (virtual/libudev-215-r1:0/1::gentoo, installed)
>
>
> --
> Regards
> wabe
>
>


I switched mine back when eudev was new and not even stable yet.  It was
as simple as unmerge udev and emerge eudev.  I don't recall even doing a
reboot, which I rarely do here anyway. 

Dale

:-)  :-)