Re: [gentoo-user] Problems to update caused by nvidia-drivers?

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sat, 10 Mar 2018 05:42:16 +0100, tuxic@××××××.de wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I git this this morning:
> These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
>
> !!! Multiple package instances within a single package slot have been
> pulled !!! into the dependency graph, resulting in a slot conflict:
>
> x11-base/xorg-server:0
>
>   (x11-base/xorg-server-1.19.99.901-r1:0/1.19.99.901::gentoo, ebuild
> scheduled for merge) pulled in by (no parents that aren't satisfied by
> other packages in this slot)
>
>   (x11-base/xorg-server-1.19.5-r1:0/1.19.5::gentoo, installed) pulled
> in by x11-base/xorg-server:0/1.19.5= required by
> (x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.10.5:0/0::gentoo, installed)
> ^^^^^^^^^^ x11-base/xorg-server:0/1.19.5= required by
> (x11-drivers/xf86-input-libinput-0.26.0:0/0::gentoo, installed)
> ^^^^^^^^^^ x11-base/xorg-server:0/1.19.5= required by
> (x11-drivers/xf86-input-mouse-1.9.2:0/0::gentoo, installed)
> ^^^^^^^^^^ x11-base/xorg-server:0/1.19.5= required by
> (x11-drivers/xf86-input-keyboard-1.9.0:0/0::gentoo, installed)
> ^^^^^^^^^^ <x11-base/xorg-server-1.19.99:= required by
> (x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-390.25:0/390::gentoo, installed)
> ^                     ^^^^^^^ ^ <x11-base/xorg-server-1.19.99:0/1.19.5=
> required by (x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers-390.25:0/390::gentoo,
> installed) ^
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
>
> Looks like nvidia-drivers dont wants the update...or is there any way
> around it -- except of masking the update?

You don't need to mask anything. Portage is simply telling you, in its
own cryptic way, that the newer xorg doesn't work with nvidia-drivers.
Effectively it has created the mask for you and will remove it when the
time is right. If you mask it manually, you won't know when to unmask it
and that may cause problems later.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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