Re: [gentoo-user] Would unmerging xorg-server certainly help it?

[Akater]

The subject question of my message is stated in the last paragraph.

Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××.be> writes:

> Try to emerge x11-base/xorg-proto and x11-proto/scrnsaverproto
> simultaneously.

I just tried

> emerge --ask --verbose --update --oneshot x11-base/xorg-proto x11-proto/scrnsaverproto

and it didn't work:

 > * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
 > * installed at the same time on the same system.

 >  (x11-proto/scrnsaverproto-1.2.2-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
 >    x11-proto/scrnsaverproto

 >  (x11-base/xorg-proto-2018.4:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
 >    x11-base/xorg-proto

Note: I have a fairly nonstandard setup, and have not yet migrated from

> hardened/linux/amd64 (stable)

to

> default/linux/amd64/17.x/hardened (stable for x=0, exp for x=1)

but despite having a specific setup, I seem to have the same issues as
OP.

Can you (or anyone reading this) confirm from first-hand experience that
unmerging xorg-server would help? It won't be a problem for me as long
as it is certain that I'll have xorg-server back by tomorrow and would
not, say, find out that due to some interesting turn of events I'm going
to spend an indefinite amount of time in console. Note: I'd rather not
mess with binary packages, either.