On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 6:05 PM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: > Mike Gilbert wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 20, 2015 at 4:45 PM, Dale <[email protected]> wrote: >>> As you say, this makes no sense. It's like running in circles or >>> something. Mostly or something. >>> >>> If you need more info, let me know. I'm pretty much clueless here. >>> >> What do you have in ACCEPT_KEYWORDS? Are you mixing arch and ~arch packages? >> >> If so, please make sure you have all of the following in pacakge.keywords: >> >> sys-fs/eudev >> virtual/libgudev >> dev-libs/libgudev >> >> For more information, see bug 552036. >> >> https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=552036 >> >> > > > That fixed it. I had eudev in there already. I had to because when it > first came out, they were all keyworded. I didn't have the other two in > there tho. I just wonder, why didn't portage figure that out? Oh well.
Portage tries very hard not to install new packages when attempting to satisfy an || dep, especially when doing so would involve changing USE flags. When it has no other choice, it sometimes picks the wrong || dep to satisfy. In this case, it was trying to solve the conflict by switching from eudev to static-dev, instead of installing libgudev. By upgrading to virtual/libgudev-230, we remove that possibility from its set of possible solutions.
