I am using eudev. RDEPEND for virtual/udev is RDEPEND="|| ( >=sys-fs/udev-206[gudev?,hwdb?,introspection?,kmod?,selinux?,static-libs?] >=sys-apps/systemd-206[gudev?,introspection?,kmod?,selinux?,static-libs(-)?] kmod? ( >=sys-fs/eudev-1.2_beta[modutils,gudev?,hwdb?,introspection?,selinux?,static-libs?] ) !kmod? ( >=sys-fs/eudev-1.2_beta[gudev?,hwdb?,introspection?,selinux?,static-libs?] ) )" but available ebuilds for eudev is eudev-1.0.ebuild eudev-1.1.ebuild eudev-1_beta2-r2.ebuild eudev-1_beta4-r1.ebuild eudev-9999.ebuild No ~eudev-1.2 in list and portage tells me that i need to install sys-fs/udev, but i don't need this, i use eudev in my Gentoo box. If I manually correct ebuild for virtual/udev and place it in my local overlay, everything works fine. Reproducible: Always Portage 2.2.0_alpha188_p54 (default/linux/amd64/13.0/desktop/kde, gcc-4.8.1, glibc-2.17, 3.9.10-gentoo x86_64) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-3.9.10-gentoo-x86_64-Intel-R-_Core-TM-_i7-2630QM_CPU_@_2.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.2 KiB Mem: 6008476 total, 1257376 free KiB Swap: 6291452 total, 6277068 free Timestamp of tree: Wed, 24 Jul 2013 15:00:01 +0000 ld GNU ld (GNU Binutils) 2.23.1 ccache version 3.1.9 [enabled] app-shells/bash: 4.2_p45 dev-java/java-config: 2.2.0 dev-lang/python: 2.7.5-r1, 3.3.2-r1 dev-util/ccache: 3.1.9 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.11.1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.28 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.2 sys-apps/openrc: 0.11.8 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.6-r1 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.69 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.3, 1.11.6, 1.12.6, 1.14 sys-devel/binutils: 2.23.1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.8.1 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.8 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4.2 sys-devel/make: 3.82-r4 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 3.9 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.17 Repositories: gentoo seden kde proaudio zugaina Tzar ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64" ACCEPT_LICENSE="* -@EULA" CBUILD="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mtune=corei7-avx -fno-align-labels -fno-align-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -fpredictive-commoning -ftree-vectorize -mmmx -mno-sahf -pthread -fexcess-precision=fast -msse4.2" CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/share/config /usr/share/gnupg/qualified.txt /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-2.0 /usr/share/themes/oxygen-gtk/gtk-3.0 /var/lib/hsqldb" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/ca-certificates.conf /etc/env.d /etc/fonts/fonts.conf /etc/gconf /etc/gentoo-release /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/sandbox.d /etc/splash /etc/terminfo /etc/texmf/language.dat.d /etc/texmf/language.def.d /etc/texmf/updmap.d /etc/texmf/web2c" CXXFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mtune=corei7-avx -fno-align-labels -fno-align-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -fpredictive-commoning -ftree-vectorize -mmmx -mno-sahf -pthread -fexcess-precision=fast -msse4.2" DISTDIR="/home/portage/distfiles" EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--alphabetical" FCFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mtune=corei7-avx -fno-align-labels -fno-align-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -fpredictive-commoning -ftree-vectorize -mmmx -mno-sahf -pthread -fexcess-precision=fast -msse4.2" FEATURES="assume-digests binpkg-logs ccache config-protect-if-modified distlocks ebuild-locks fixlafiles merge-sync metadata-transfer news parallel-fetch preserve-libs protect-owned sandbox sfperms strict unknown-features-warn unmerge-logs unmerge-orphans userfetch usersandbox xattr" FFLAGS="-O2 -march=native -mtune=corei7-avx -fno-align-labels -fno-align-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -fpredictive-commoning -ftree-vectorize -mmmx -mno-sahf -pthread -fexcess-precision=fast -msse4.2" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org" LANG="ru_RU.utf8" LDFLAGS="-Wl,-O1 -Wl,--as-needed" MAKEOPTS="-j8" PKGDIR="/var/portage/packages" PORTAGE_CONFIGROOT="/" PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --omit-dir-times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --stats --human-readable --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/home" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/var/lib/layman/seden /var/lib/layman/kde /var/lib/layman/pro-audio /var/lib/layman/zugaina /var/lib/layman/local" SYNC="rsync://rsync.europe.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage" USE="3dnow X a52 aac acl acpi alsa amd64 avahi berkdb bluetooth branding bzip2 cairo cdda cdr cleartype cli consolekit cracklib crypt cups cxx dbus declarative dri dts dvd dvdr emboss encode exif fam firefox flac fortran freetype gdbm gif gles gpm gstreamer gtk gtk3 iconv icu ieee1394 iodbc java jpeg jpeg2k kde kerberos kipi lcdfilter lcms ldap libnotify llvm lua lzma mad mmx mmxext mng modules mono mp3 mp4 mpeg mudflap multilib multitarget mysql ncurses nls nptl nsplugin oci8-instant-client odbc ogg openexr opengl openldap openmp openrc oracle pam pango pcre pdf phonon php pic plasma png policykit portaudio postgres postscript ppds pulse pulseaudio python3 qt qt3support qt4 readline samba sasl scanner sdl session spell sse sse2 sse3 ssl ssse3 startup-notification svg systemtap tcpd telepathy threads tiff tk truetype type1 udev udisks unicode upnp upower usb userlocales v4l vorbis wayland webdav wicd wxwidgets x264 xcb xcomposite xine xinerama xml xmp xscreensaver xv xvid zeroconf zlib" ABI_X86="64" ALSA_CARDS="ali5451 als4000 atiixp atiixp-modem bt87x ca0106 cmipci emu10k1x ens1370 ens1371 es1938 es1968 fm801 hda-intel intel8x0 intel8x0m maestro3 trident usb-audio via82xx via82xx-modem ymfpci" APACHE2_MODULES="authn_dbd auth_digest charset_lite proxy reqtimeout version authn_core authz_core socache_shmcb unixd actions alias auth_basic authn_alias authn_anon authn_dbm authn_default authn_file authz_dbm authz_default authz_groupfile authz_host authz_owner authz_user autoindex cache cgi cgid dav dav_fs dav_lock deflate dir disk_cache env expires ext_filter file_cache filter headers include info log_config logio mem_cache mime mime_magic negotiation rewrite setenvif speling status unique_id userdir usertrack vhost_alias cache_disk lbmethod_byrequests slotmem_shm proxy_balancer" APACHE2_MPMS="worker" CALLIGRA_FEATURES="krita" CAMERAS="*" COLLECTD_PLUGINS="df interface irq load memory rrdtool swap syslog" ELIBC="glibc" GPSD_PROTOCOLS="ashtech aivdm earthmate evermore fv18 garmin garmintxt gpsclock itrax mtk3301 nmea ntrip navcom oceanserver oldstyle oncore rtcm104v2 rtcm104v3 sirf superstar2 timing tsip tripmate tnt ubx" GRUB_PLATFORMS="pc" INPUT_DEVICES="evdev synaptics" KERNEL="linux" LCD_DEVICES="bayrad cfontz cfontz633 glk hd44780 lb216 lcdm001 mtxorb ncurses text" LIBREOFFICE_EXTENSIONS="presenter-minimizer pdfimport scripting-javascript wiki-publisher" LINGUAS="ru" OFFICE_IMPLEMENTATION="libreoffice" PHP_TARGETS="php5-4" PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7" PYTHON_TARGETS="python3_3 python2_7" QEMU_SOFTMMU_TARGETS="i386 x86_64 arm" QEMU_USER_TARGETS="i386 x86_64 arm" RUBY_TARGETS="ruby20 ruby19" USERLAND="GNU" VIDEO_CARDS="intel i965 nvidia" XTABLES_ADDONS="quota2 psd pknock lscan length2 ipv4options ipset ipp2p iface geoip fuzzy condition tee tarpit sysrq steal rawnat logmark ipmark dhcpmac delude chaos account" Unset: CPPFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, PORTAGE_BUNZIP2_COMMAND, PORTAGE_COMPRESS, PORTAGE_COMPRESS_FLAGS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, USE_PYTHON
The dependency is correct. Currently there is no working eudev release out there to match current virtual, bug 477868, bug 477890 likely too In any case, bug 477868 is used to track the future 1.2 release that has required changes for the virtual *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 477868 ***
A new version of eudev is coming soon, that will satisfy virtual/udev-206. In the meantime I've put ceiling PDEPENDS on virtual/udev in the eudev ebuilds, so that it will block just-because-i-can upgrades to the virtual and therefore the pull in of alternatives.