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> -----Original Message----- |
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> From: Kusoneko <kusoneko@××××××××.moe> |
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> Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2021 05:02 |
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> To: gentoo-user@l.g.o |
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> Cc: Kusoneko <kusoneko@××××××××.moe> |
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> Subject: [gentoo-user] news 2021-01-30-display-manager-init -- blocked |
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> package |
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> Following my daily syncing today, 2 news items appeared, the important |
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> one for this being the following: |
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> 2021-01-30-display-manager-init |
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> It states that starting the next xorg-server version, the xdm init |
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> script will be removed and that one install gui-libs/display-manager-init to replace it. |
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> Following the instructions to install said package leads to a |
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> wonderful error stating that the package is blocked by the following packages: |
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> x11-apps/xinit-1.4.1 |
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> sys-apps/sysvinit-2.98 |
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> x11-base/xorg-server-1.20.10 |
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> Removing xorg-server is not gonna happen, so looking at what emerge |
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> says, there's a bit of an issue here: |
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> https://zifb.in/GUtgto4VcX |
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> Doing the required update is currently impossible. |
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> I am definitely not gonna remember about this in a week or 2 so I'd |
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> like to deal with whatever this issue is asap. Is there any way to do this? |
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> Note: all 3 of the blocking packages and whatever pulls them in are |
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> NOT using the ~amd64 keyword at the moment, except for nvidia-drivers. |
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> Thanks for any help, |
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> Kusoneko. |
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You already solved, so this is just for other's info: in my case (unstable amd64) I saw the news item, tried to emerge display-manager-init, got your same block, let the emerge run to completion and _then_ succeeded emerging display-manager-init, which is now running happily at startup. |
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