xfce4-meta-4.14 seems to require udisks (and polkit, et al)

[depontius]

I went to update today, after being on vacation, and it kept trying to pull in udisks and all that it requires, notably polkit and spidermonkey. This is caused by thunar-volman, which requires that thunar be built with the udisks USE flag. In the good old days I simply chose not to install thunar-volman, but the new xfce4-meta package specifically calls out thunar-volman as a hard requirement. For the moment I've simply masked it, using the old xfce4-meta and letting it pull in the new xfce4 pieces - and not including thunar-volman.

Anyone know more about this?
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[fedeliallalinea]

[depontius]

Thanks, I've done that. It's my first use of package.provided.

I don't like long-term finagling of my systems, it seems to me that it's usually inviting troubles somewhere down the line. In this case, it looks to be the "least finagle" way of doing the job.
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[Hu]

Since this is your first use of that feature, I should provide one warning that is not in the Wiki. For purposes of dependency calculation, Portage assumes those packages are provided by the system administrator. If you try to install something that actually needs the package to be installed, Portage won't try to install the provided package, and the requiring package will likely just fail. You can get away with package.provided here because the virtual doesn't actually need the package installed. You can't get away with it if you install something that truly needs the provided package, and you won't get a warning from Portage if/when you reach that point.

[depontius]

Things like that are why I try not to tamper too much with portage's natural order. In this case I'm generally trying to avoid the feature, so it hopefully won't catch me. Warning taken, package.provided to be used sparingly and carefully.
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