I use mdev on an efi-64 system with grub. systemd, udev and eudev is masked. Over grub_platforms_efi-* it pulls in efibootmgr which pulls in hwids. This requires udev useflag. efibootmgr doesnt install any libs. equery f efibootmgr * Searching for efibootmgr ... * Contents of sys-boot/efibootmgr-0.12: /usr /usr/sbin /usr/sbin/efibootmgr /usr/share /usr/share/doc /usr/share/doc/efibootmgr-0.12 /usr/share/doc/efibootmgr-0.12/AUTHORS.bz2 /usr/share/doc/efibootmgr-0.12/ChangeLog.bz2 /usr/share/doc/efibootmgr-0.12/README.bz2 /usr/share/doc/efibootmgr-0.12/TODO.bz2 /usr/share/man /usr/share/man/man8 /usr/share/man/man8/efibootmgr.8.bz2 grub doesnt link against it, so grub on efi should not depend on efibootmgr. emerge -auDNv @world * IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. * Use eselect news read to view new items. These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N #] sys-fs/udev-216::gentoo USE="acl firmware-loader kmod -doc -gudev -introspection (-selinux) -static-libs" 3.530 KiB [ebuild R ] sys-apps/hwids-20150129::gentoo USE="net pci udev* usb" 0 KiB [ebuild N ] sys-fs/udev-init-scripts-27::gentoo 0 KiB Total: 3 packages (2 new, 1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 3.530 KiB The following mask changes are necessary to proceed: (see "package.unmask" in the portage(5) man page for more details) # required by virtual/libudev-215-r1::gentoo[-systemd] # required by media-libs/mesa-10.6.9::local # required by @selected # required by @world (argument) eix hwids [I] sys-apps/hwids Available versions: 20141010 ~20141110 ~20141214 ~20150107 20150129 ~20150417 ~20150421 ~20150421-r1 ~20150717 ~20150717-r1 **99999999 {+net +pci +udev +usb} Installed versions: 20150129(21:23:48 02.12.2015)(net pci usb -udev) Homepage: https://github.com/gentoo/hwids Description: Hardware (PCI, USB, OUI, IAB) IDs databases gentoo-xbmc portage # equery d hwids * These packages depend on hwids: sys-apps/pciutils-3.3.1 (sys-apps/hwids) x11-libs/libpciaccess-0.13.3 (sys-apps/hwids) gentoo-xbmc portage # equery d pciutils * These packages depend on pciutils: sys-apps/vbetool-1.1 (sys-apps/pciutils) sys-boot/efibootmgr-0.12 (sys-apps/pciutils) gentoo-xbmc portage # equery d efibootmgr * These packages depend on efibootmgr: sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta2-r7 (grub_platforms_efi-32 ? sys-boot/efibootmgr) (grub_platforms_efi-64 ? sys-boot/efibootmgr) Reproducible: Always Actual Results: grub_platforms_efi-64 requires efibootmgr Expected Results: grub_platforms_efi-64 doesnt require efibootmgr See https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-7849244.html#7849244
> Over grub_platforms_efi-* it pulls in efibootmgr which pulls in hwids. This requires udev useflag. efibootmgr does not pull in hwids directly. It does pull in pciutils, which pulls in hwids. pciutils does not require hwids[udev]. Add USE="-udev" to make.conf if you don't want it.
