James <wireless <at> tampabay.rr.com> writes:
> So unless somebody can give me good reason, I'm downgrading to > udev-171 asap on this (only) system running udev 196....... > (ps, I like to experiment, but not with udev et. al.) Long night, when you have to answer your own posts..... Now I get: emerge -p1u udev These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild UD ] sys-fs/udev-171-r9 [196-r1] USE="rule_generator%* -action_modeswitch% -build% -debug% -edd% (-extras) -floppy% {-test%}" [blocks B ] <sys-fs/udev-186 ("<sys-fs/udev-186" is blocking sys-fs/udev-init-scripts-17-r1) !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict: sys-fs/udev:0 (sys-fs/udev-196-r1::gentoo, installed) pulled in by >=sys-fs/udev-196-r1[gudev?,hwdb?,introspection?,keymap?,selinux?,static-libs?] required by (virtual/udev-196::gentoo, installed) (sys-fs/udev-171-r9::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by (no parents that aren't satisfied by other packages in this slot) ideas? James