On Sun, Jan 20, 2013 at 10:22:24PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote > emerge decided to install sys-fs/udisks-1.0.4-r4 (presumably this had > just become stable), and this had a dependency on > > >=virtual/udev-197[gudev,hwdb] > > . So rather than refusing to merge udisks, it insisted on merging > udev-197. This strikes me as a bug, not a feature, but who am I to > pronounce on these matters? > > Just as soon as I put ">=udisks-1.0.4-r4" (and a similar entry for > udev-init-scripts) into package.mask, I got a clean reply from "emerge > -puND world". > > Anyway, I'll probably do that tomorrow, then start considering udev-197 > and all the pain and grief it'll bring me.
To prevent future repetitions of this behaviour, add --autounmask=n to EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS in your make.conf file, e.g... EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--autounmask=n" This is supposed to turn off autounmasking. -- Walter Dnes <[email protected]> I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications
