Blocked eudev/udev conflict stopsf lxde-meta [SOLVED]

[52midnight]

A new installation with everything up to Xorg installed without problems. Then 'emerge lxde-base/lxde-meta' lists three blocked packages:

eudev-3.1.2 pulled in by eudev-1.3 required by (udev-215 installed) eudev-1.3.0 etc
udev-220 pulled in by eudev-1.3 required by (udev-215 installed) udev-208 etc
libgudev-230 pulled in by libgudev:0 etc

All three are marked 'ebuild sheduled for merge'. Not sure what this means: it seems that there are two conflicting 'udevs' - udev and eudev.

Past experience has proved that fiddling with udev is Bad News. Can someone please enlighten me as to how to fix this? The Handbook suggests removing conflicting packages, but with udev that sounds wrong.

[steveL]

I'd package.mask whichever one you don't want to use. That way portage will stop seeing it as an option, and you should get better errors.

You have udev installed, so if you want to stick with it:

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echo sys-fs/eudev >> /etc/portage/package.mask

Lose the 'e' if you want to switch to eudev, instead.

[52midnight]

Thanks for that! On further reflection, it looks as if the system is wanting the latest versions, but trying to switch to eudev because they're not yet in the tree - ?

[charles17]

A new installation with everything up to Xorg installed without problems. Then 'emerge lxde-base/lxde-meta' lists three blocked packages:

eudev-3.1.2 pulled in by eudev-1.3 required by (udev-215 installed) eudev-1.3.0 etc
udev-220 pulled in by eudev-1.3 required by (udev-215 installed) udev-208 etc
libgudev-230 pulled in by libgudev:0 etc

The culprit is lxsession (whatever it is good for). You could set

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# echo 'lxde-base/lxsession -upower' >> /etc/portage/package.use

and try again.

[52midnight]

Now that's REAL insider information - thanks. I've used package.mask to block eudev and udevs later than 215, but this insight could be useful down the track.