Thank you to all who are following this. I used emerge -vptd to get some debugging info. This is the reason emerge wants to bring in the ~amd64 to my stable system:
Parent: (xfce-base/thunar-1.4.0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) Depstring: || ( >=gnome-base/gvfs-1.10.1[udisks,udev] >=gnome-base/gvfs-1.10.1[gdu,udev] ) Priority: runtime installed: gnome-base/gvfs-1.10.1::gentoo Candidates: ['>=gnome-base/gvfs-1.10.1[udisks,udev]'] ebuild: gnome-base/gvfs-1.12.3::gentoo I do not know how to translate to english, but these questions arise: 1. What is this saying in english? 2. Should I have the udisks USE flag set? 3. Should I have the udev USE flag set? 4. Should I have the gdu USE flag set? 5. Will (3)-(5) change the way portage brings in the gvfs dependency? Questions (3)-(5) are not educated questions. I really do not know what any of that stuff does. I just see it listed in the output above and naturally I wondered "should I set them?" The "Ubuntu forums" approach would be for me to try all combinations of those three use flags until it just works. In this case I would prefer to understand what is going on :) Thank you again, Chris
