lxc, Linux container: Do not install udev, static-dev

[khippy]

I have successfully installed a linux container and it is running well, I have the impression, even smoother than vserver.
Following the docs I decided not to install udev, later portage picked static-dev I hardmasked, too, together with dev-manager.

See lxc /etc/portage/package.mask:
sys-fs/udev
sys-fs/static-dev
virtual/dev-manager

This was running without errors for a while and I was keeping the lxc up to date with emerge system and world fine.

Today it stopped working. Emerge world stops and tells:

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[ebuild  N    #] ...
sys-fs/udev-9999  USE="acl gudev hwdb keymap rule_generator -action_modeswitch -debug -edd -floppy (-introspection) (-selinux) -test" 0 kB

Total: 25 packages (4 upgrades, 21 new), Size of downloads: 796 kB

The following keyword changes are necessary to proceed:
#required by virtual/dev-manager-0, required by @system, required by @world (argument)
>=sys-fs/udev-9999 **

The following mask changes are necessary to proceed:
#required by virtual/dev-manager-0, required by @system, required by @world (argument)
# /etc/portage/package.mask:
>=sys-fs/udev-9999

NOTE: This --autounmask behavior can be disabled by setting
      EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--autounmask=n" in make.conf.

Use --autounmask-write to write changes to config files (honoring CONFIG_PROTECT).

Please, can you help me how to avoid installing dev packages at a linux container?

[drescherjm]

Please, can you help me how to avoid installing dev packages at a linux container?

I think you can add sys-fs/udev to /etc/portage/profile/package.provided

To be honest I do not really worry about udev being complied for my lxc containers. I just don't bother starting any of the daemons for udev.

I have the impression, even smoother than vserver.

Yes it is and you are not tied to old kernels. I am running my lxc containers under 2.6.39 at home and at work.

[khippy]

Now I have

/etc/portage/profile/package.provided

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sys-fs/udev-9999 
sys-fs/static-dev-9999

which is a clean solution.

Thank you very much.