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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed
Date: Sun, 14 Jun 2020 22:06:59
Message-Id: 20200614230643.1bc9e3ac@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] "masked by: EAPI 7" trying up update "portage" - how to proceed by n952162
1 On Sun, 14 Jun 2020 22:07:20 +0200, n952162 wrote:
2
3 > I see that there are new lines in the dependencies table that I've never
4 > encountered before:
5 >
6 >   [blocks B      ] <x11-proto/randrproto-1.5.0-r1
7 > ("<x11-proto/randrproto-1.5.0-r1" is blocking
8 > x11-base/xorg-proto-2019.2)
9 >
10 > I get these (using the emerge from the git repository) for all of
11 > @world, @system, and portage.
12 >
13 > Is there a way to handle that?
14
15 As you're now SSHing into the machine and don't need X to do the upgrade,
16 I'd just unmerge randrproto. Once you have portage updage, the next world
17 update will pull in the correct version if it's still needed.
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21 Neil Bothwick
22
23 Deja Foobar: A feeling of having made the same mistake before.

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