Re: [gentoo-user] emerge output: [ebuild UD ]

[Alexander Kapshuk]

On Tue, Sep 16, 2014 at 7:07 PM, Michael Orlitzky <mjo@g.o> wrote:
> On 09/16/2014 11:51 AM, Alexander Kapshuk wrote:
>> Recently, I updated xfce-extra/xfce4-power-manager to version 1.3.1,
>> which is unstable, in order to prevent lvm2 from being pulled in as a
>> dependency.
>>
>> [ebuild     UD ] xfce-extra/xfce4-power-manager-1.3.0 [1.3.1]
>> USE="policykit udisks%* -debug -networkmanager -systemd (-lxpanel%)"
>> XFCE_PLUGINS="brightness -battery" 0 kB
>>
>> Total: 6 packages (1 downgrade, 4 new, 1 in new slot), Size of downloads: 0 kB
>>
>> emerge trying to downgrade a package, Is that a bug or feature? This
>> is the first time I've encountered it. I googled it as well, but so
>> far found nothing relevant.
>
> Version 1.3.1 (which you had installed) used two XFCE_PLUGINS: "battery"
> and "brightness". The newer 1.4.0 only uses "power". Since you still
> have "brightness" in your XFCE_PLUGINS, it's pulling in the only version
> that supports that, the previous 1.3.0. Try replacing "brightness" with
> "power" in your XFCE_PLUGINS.
>
>

Replacing brightness with power in XFCE_PLUGINS, followed by running
'emerge -avuND @world', still tried to downgrade the package in
question.

I then ran 'emerge -avuND '>xfce-extra/xfce4-power-manager-1.3.1'
which suggested adding '=xfce-extra/xfce4-power-manager-1.4.0 ~x86' to
/etc/portage/package.accept_keywords.

I did that, followed by running 'emerge -avuND @world', which pulled
in xfce-extra/xfce4-power-manager-1.4.0.

Thanks.