Howdy all, Once a month or so, or when told to by a news item, I run emerge with the --depclean option. I look at the list in case there something there I want to keep or something that shouldn't be removed, like gcc or something. I ran it a bit ago and got back this:
> >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged: > > dev-lang/vala > selected: 0.52.10 > protected: none > omitted: 0.54.7 0.56.1 > > sys-apps/systemd-tmpfiles > selected: 250 > protected: none > omitted: none > > dev-libs/rapidjson > selected: 1.1.0-r3 > protected: none > omitted: none > > sys-fs/udev > selected: 250 > protected: none > omitted: none > > sys-devel/clang > selected: 13.0.1 > protected: none > omitted: 14.0.4 > > sys-devel/clang-runtime > selected: 13.0.1 > protected: none > omitted: 14.0.4 > > sys-libs/compiler-rt > selected: 13.0.1 > protected: none > omitted: 14.0.4 > > sys-libs/compiler-rt-sanitizers > selected: 13.0.1 > protected: none > omitted: 14.0.4 > > sys-devel/llvm > selected: 13.0.1 > protected: none > omitted: 14.0.4 > > All selected packages: =sys-devel/clang-runtime-13.0.1 > =sys-libs/compiler-rt-13.0.1 =sys-libs/compiler-rt-sanitizers-13.0.1 > =sys-devel/clang-13.0.1 =dev-lang/vala-0.52.10 > =sys-apps/systemd-tmpfiles-250 =sys-fs/udev-250 =sys-devel/llvm-13.0.1 > =dev-libs/rapidjson-1.1.0-r3 > > >>> 'Selected' packages are slated for removal. > >>> 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. > > Would you like to unmerge these packages? [Yes/No] The part that has me concerned is sys-fs/udev. There's another that I'm not sure about but that one caught my eye right away. I don't recall seeing anything posted on -dev about switching to something else or udev no longer being needed and being removed. I'm confused here. Isn't the virtual supposed to prevent this from being removed? Is this a portage change or did I mess something up somewhere? This is what I show here depending either on the virtual or udev itself. > root@fireball / # equery d sys-fs/udev > * These packages depend on sys-fs/udev: > virtual/libudev-232-r7 (!systemd ? > sys-fs/udev[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?]) > virtual/udev-217-r5 (sys-fs/udev) > root@fireball / # equery d virtual/udev > * These packages depend on virtual/udev: > app-crypt/zulucrypt-5.5.0_pre20180223 (udev ? virtual/udev) > app-pda/usbmuxd-1.1.1 (virtual/udev) > dev-libs/libinput-1.20.1 (virtual/udev) > media-video/vlc-3.0.17.4 (udev ? virtual/udev) > net-misc/dhcpcd-9.4.1 (udev ? virtual/udev) > sys-block/f3-8.0 (extra ? virtual/udev) > sys-fs/cryptmount-5.3.3-r2 (udev ? virtual/udev) > sys-fs/udev-init-scripts-34 (>=virtual/udev-217) > sys-fs/udisks-2.9.4 (virtual/udev) > sys-kernel/dracut-055-r4 (virtual/udev) > sys-libs/libblockdev-2.26 (lvm ? virtual/udev) > sys-power/nut-2.7.4-r8 (virtual/udev) > sys-power/upower-0.99.17 (kernel_linux ? virtual/udev) > virtual/dev-manager-0-r2 (virtual/udev) > x11-misc/spacefm-1.0.6-r1 (virtual/udev) > xfce-base/thunar-4.16.11 (udisks ? virtual/udev) > xfce-extra/thunar-volman-4.16.0 (virtual/udev) > root@fireball / # This is the packages I have installed containing udev. > root@fireball / # equery list *udev* > * Searching for *udev* ... > [IP-] [ ] dev-libs/libgudev-237-r1:0/0 > [IP-] [ ] sys-fs/udev-250:0 > [IP-] [ ] sys-fs/udev-init-scripts-34:0 > [IP-] [ ] virtual/libudev-232-r7:0/1 > [IP-] [ ] virtual/udev-217-r5:0 > root@fireball / # Anyone have ideas on this? I mess up something? Catch the tree in a bad state? Something else I'm not aware of? It's not making sense to me yet. :/ Thanks. Dale :-) :-)
