Re: [gentoo-user] news 2021-01-30-display-manager-init -- blocked package

[Neil Bothwick]

On Sat, 30 Jan 2021 23:01:42 -0500, Kusoneko wrote:

> Following my daily syncing today, 2 news items appeared,
> the important one for this being the following:
>
>     2021-01-30-display-manager-init
>
> It states that starting the next xorg-server version,
> the xdm init script will be removed and that one
> install gui-libs/display-manager-init to replace it.
> Following the instructions to install said package
> leads to a wonderful error stating that the package
> is blocked by the following packages:
>
>     x11-apps/xinit-1.4.1
>     sys-apps/sysvinit-2.98
>     x11-base/xorg-server-1.20.10
>
> Removing xorg-server is not gonna happen, so
> looking at what emerge says, there's a bit of an
> issue here:
>
> https://zifb.in/GUtgto4VcX
>
> Doing the required update is currently impossible.
>
> I am definitely not gonna remember about this
> in a week or 2 so I'd like to deal with whatever
> this issue is asap. Is there any way to do this?

You could use eselect to mark the news unread.

You cannot use display-manager-init with the current stable xorg-server,
because of this depend

!<=x11-base/xorg-server-1.20.10

However, you can use it with the -r1 version, which is currently ~arch.
The differences between the ebuilds relate to the init handling, they
install the same server code, so you have two choices: add -r1 to
package.accept_keywords or wait a couple of weeks and hope you remember.

The worst that is likely to happen is you forget and boot to a console
one day, at which point you will almost certainly remember :)


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Neil Bothwick

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