Hi, I have a system I installed before the transition from eudev to udev. Currently investigating some issue in recent kernels I found that I have virtual/udev installed, but non of eudev or udev packages are installed. If I do emerge -1 udev, the system will try to remove it on depclean: # emerge -s virtual/udev setlocale: unsupported locale setting setlocale: unsupported locale setting [ Results for search key : virtual/udev ] Searching... * virtual/udev Latest version available: 217-r5 Latest version installed: 217-r5 Size of files: 0 KiB Homepage: Description: Virtual to select between different udev daemon providers License: [ Applications found : 1 ] # emerge -p --depclean setlocale: unsupported locale setting setlocale: unsupported locale setting * Always study the list of packages to be cleaned for any obvious * mistakes. Packages that are part of the world set will always * be kept. They can be manually added to this set with * `emerge --noreplace <atom>`. Packages that are listed in * package.provided (see portage(5)) will be removed by * depclean, even if they are part of the world set. * * As a safety measure, depclean will not remove any packages * unless *all* required dependencies have been resolved. As a * consequence of this, it often becomes necessary to run * `emerge --update --newuse --deep @world` prior to depclean. Calculating dependencies... done! >>> Calculating removal order... >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged: sys-fs/udev selected: 250 protected: none omitted: none All selected packages: =sys-fs/udev-250 >>> 'Selected' packages are slated for removal. >>> 'Protected' and 'omitted' packages will not be removed. Packages installed: 1428 Packages in world: 104 Packages in system: 50 Required packages: 1427 Number to remove: 1 I understand any of the packages needs to be installed for proper hw detection. Please correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks! José.
and just for completeness, this is how udev looks like in emerge -s udev: $ emerge -s eudev setlocale: unsupported locale setting setlocale: unsupported locale setting [ Results for search key : eudev ] Searching... * app-emacs/eldev [ Masked ] Latest version available: 1.2.2 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of files: 234 KiB Homepage: https://github.com/doublep/eldev/ Description: Emacs Lisp Development Tool License: GPL-3+ * sys-fs/eudev Latest version available: 3.2.11-r2 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of files: 2202 KiB Homepage: https://github.com/gentoo/eudev Description: Linux dynamic and persistent device naming support (aka userspace devfs) License: LGPL-2.1 MIT GPL-2 * sys-fs/udev Latest version available: 250 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of files: 0 KiB Homepage: https://systemd.io/ Description: Virtual package to depend on sys-apps/systemd-utils License: metapackage * virtual/udev Latest version available: 217-r5 Latest version installed: 217-r5 Size of files: 0 KiB Homepage: Description: Virtual to select between different udev daemon providers License: [ Applications found : 4 ] Thanks!
You're probably using systemd-utils: https://www.gentoo.org/support/news-items/2022-04-19-systemd-utils.html.
