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

[Ian Zimmerman]

On 2018-03-25 17:49, Martin Vaeth wrote:

> It should be scrnsaverproto-1.2.2-r2 which is pulled in.
> Maybe you sync'ed at an unfortunate moment. Try emerge --sync again.

In my case at least, the root cause was this: in the nightly webrsync
snapshot (which I prefer to use instead of rsync),
scrnsaverproto-1.2.2-r2 is keyworded and not stable.  Adding it to
portage/package.use magically unblocks everything.

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