[gentoo-user] --depclean wants to remove udev. What!?

[Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>]

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

:-)  :-)