[gentoo-user] Re: go to a no-x console from failed X + lxde install

[Harry Putnam]

Andrej Rode <mail@××××××××.de> writes:

> Hi,
>
>> (dependency required by "gnome-extra/polkit-gnome-0.105-r1::gentoo" [installed])
>> (dependency required by "sys-auth/polkit-0.113-r1::gentoo[gtk]" [installed])
>> (dependency required by "sys-auth/consolekit-1.1.0-r1::gentoo[policykit]" [installed])
>> (dependency required by "sys-auth/pambase-20150213::gentoo[consolekit]" [installed])
>> (dependency required by "net-misc/openssh-7.3_p1-r8::gentoo[pam]" [ebuild])
>> (dependency required by "virtual/ssh-0::gentoo[-minimal]" [installed])
>> (dependency required by "@system" [set])
>> (dependency required by "@world" [argument])
>> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> This output now shows us that `> (dependency required by
> "sys-auth/polkit-0.113-r1::gentoo[gtk]" [installed])` polkit has the gtk
> useflag and therefore it tries to build `polkit-gnome` which in fact
> requires gtk.
>
> Instead of setting USE=-gtk in your `/etc/portage/make.conf` try setting
> `sys-auth/consolekit-1.1.0-r1 -gtk` in `/etc/portage/package.use/polkit`

I guessed you meant to say polkit  so:
    root # cat /etc/portage/package.use/polkit
  sys-auth/polkit-0.113-r -gtk

And boy did those changes you've been posting really make a difference

I have a nice hefty list of nearly all non-x stuff ...

One item puzzles me a bit:

  [ebuild  N     ] x11-misc/shared-mime-info-1.7::gentoo  USE="{-test}" 0 KiB

Using Dales suggestion of --tree I see a whole list of stuff pulling
that in.  The closest culprit seems to be:
  dev-libs/glib-2.50.2:[...] USE+"mime [...]"
  
  But maybe `shared-mime-info' is something one might use reading mail
  or such?
  
I guess the `nomerge' part means its already installed?

Its a bit confusing seeing what is actually doing the pulling:
Is it `virtual/ssh-0'

[ebuild   R    ] virtual/ssh-0::gentoo  USE="minimal*" 0 KiB
[nomerge       ] sys-apps/pciutils-3.5.2::gentoo  USE="kmod [...]
[nomerge       ]  virtual/libudev-232:0/1::gentoo  USE="-static-libs[...]
[ebuild   R    ]   sys-fs/eudev-3.2::gentoo  USE="hwdb kmod [...]
[nomerge       ] sys-fs/udev-init-scripts-32::gentoo
[nomerge       ]  virtual/udev-217::gentoo  USE="-systemd"
[nomerge       ]   sys-fs/eudev-3.2::gentoo  USE="hwdb kmod [...]
[nomerge       ]    virtual/pkgconfig-0-r1::gentoo
[nomerge       ]     dev-util/pkgconfig-0.29.1::gentoo  USE="-hardened [...]
[nomerge       ]      dev-libs/glib-2.50.2:2::gentoo  USE="mime xattr [...]
[ebuild  N     ]       x11-misc/shared-mime-info-1.7::gentoo  USE="{-test}"[...]


Thanks for the help and the url pointers I snipped.