Re: [gentoo-user] Re: trouble understanding a slot conflict

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Mon, 02 Apr 2012 23:13:43 -0400, Allan Gottlieb wrote:

> Yes indeed I have it masked for exactly that reason.  I will be going to
> a combined / + /usr when the semester ends.  I use this machine for my
> lectures and assignments so prefer to break it from late may through
> august.
> 
> I just tried masking the -r2 (and higher) pciutils.
> But this conflicts with a newly-required hwids-2012-0401.
> The later is required by a new usbutils-005-r1
> 
> This led me to mask >=usbutils-005-r1.
> 
> Now the proposed update world leaves portage happy, but me worried.  I
> haven't actually done the update world.  It is reasonably to have so
> much masking? 

Yes. What has happened is that the ID data has been moved out of pciutils
and usbutils, so hwids blocks the older versions. If you want to stick
with the older udev, you need the older pciutils and this means you need
a matching version of usbutils. All this will disappear when you unmask
udev, as it did for me yesterday.
 

-- 
Neil Bothwick

"Good Enough" is the death knell of progress.

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