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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] I'm confused by "[ebuild U #] virtual/udev-197 [171]". Help, please!
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2013 06:00:56
Message-Id: 20130121060033.GB2122@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] I'm confused by "[ebuild U #] virtual/udev-197 [171]". Help, please! by Alan Mackenzie
1 On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 10:22:24PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote
2
3 > emerge decided to install sys-fs/udisks-1.0.4-r4 (presumably this had
4 > just become stable), and this had a dependency on
5 >
6 > >=virtual/udev-197[gudev,hwdb]
7 >
8 > . So rather than refusing to merge udisks, it insisted on merging
9 > udev-197. This strikes me as a bug, not a feature, but who am I to
10 > pronounce on these matters?
11 >
12 > Just as soon as I put ">=udisks-1.0.4-r4" (and a similar entry for
13 > udev-init-scripts) into package.mask, I got a clean reply from "emerge
14 > -puND world".
15 >
16 > Anyway, I'll probably do that tomorrow, then start considering udev-197
17 > and all the pain and grief it'll bring me.
18
19 To prevent future repetitions of this behaviour, add --autounmask=n to
20 EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS in your make.conf file, e.g...
21 EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--autounmask=n"
22
23 This is supposed to turn off autounmasking.
24
25 --
26 Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
27 I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications