I have been masking udev-181 so that I can continue to keep my current system with / and /usr separate partitions.
This has required masking pciutils and usbutils as well. /etc/portage/package.mask/udev-181 contains >=sys-fs/udev-181 >=sys-apps/pciutils-3.1.9-r2 >=sys-apps/usbutils-005-r1 Now udisks-1.99.0-r1 wants to pull in a new package udev-init-scripts. I currently have udisks-1.98.0 which is fine. I added >=sys-fs/udisks-1.99.0 to package.mask/udev-181 and emerge --pretend --update world reports no conflicts. I was about to proceed when I looked at eix udisks and noticed that 1. "my" udisk -1.98.0 is no longer there 2. The 1-99.0-r1 is now in slot 2 and new 1.0.4-r[23] are in slot 0. I looked at -r3 and it wants >=udev-171-r5. Since I have -r6 my sys. should meet the requirement. So I wonder if my mask >=sys-fs/udisks-1.99.0 is a bad idea and I should instead be forcing/encouraging udisks-1.0.4-r3 (and, if so, how?). thanks, allan
