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From: Bruce Hill <daddy@×××××××××××××××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I'm confused by "[ebuild U #] virtual/udev-197 [171]". Help, please!
Date: Sun, 20 Jan 2013 22:21:28
Message-Id: 20130120222115.GD2507@server
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] I'm confused by "[ebuild U #] virtual/udev-197 [171]". Help, please! by Alan Mackenzie
1 On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 08:50:12PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
2 > Hi, Gentoo!
3 >
4 > After synching, I've got a whole lot of programs to emerge, amongst them
5 > being udev-197. :-( I'd rather do this on its own, in peace and quiet,
6 > rather than together with 12 or 13 other programs.
7 >
8 > emerge -puND world generates these:
9 >
10 > [ebuild U #] sys-fs/udev-197-r4 [171-r9] USE="acl%* kmod%* openrc%* -doc% -static-libs%"
11 > [ebuild U #] virtual/udev-197 [171]
12 >
13 > . The # indicates the packages are masked in packages.mask, which
14 > indeed they are. The emerge man-page indicates that these new versions
15 > will nevertheless be merged. But surely this is what the entry in
16 > packages.mask is to prevent? Why does emerge want to merge udev-197 in
17 > this case? How do I stop it?
18 >
19 > What am I missing here?
20
21 I ran across this new virtual/udev problem today, also. Issuing "eix
22 virtual/udev" told me it's a "Virtual to select between sys-fs/udev and
23 sys-fs/eudev". Since it's not my intention atm to upgrade udev to >= 181, or
24 install eudev, I added ">=virtual/udev-181" and now my working Gentoo system
25 no longer wants to upgrade udev.
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