On 05/06/14 02:15, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > On 06/04/2014 03:17 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote: >> On 04/06/14 20:11, Dutch Ingraham wrote: >>> On 06/04/2014 07:22 AM, Daniel Troeder wrote: >>>> Am 04.06.2014 06:05, schrieb Samuli Suominen: >>>>> On 04/06/14 05:17, Dutch Ingraham wrote: >>>>>> No, "sys-fs/udev" is not masked, but an update is indicated in the >>>>>> emerge above. That's a good catch, the MATE stuff is from the overlay. >>>>>> Unfortunately, the xfce stuff is not, so even if the overlay currency >>>>>> was an issue, I'll still be showing some dependencies. >>>>>> >>>>> Try re-emerging on un-emerging the offending packages, like >>>>> xfce4-session and xfce4-power-manager, >>>>> it has helped some people, to refresh the .ebuild copy that is installed >>>>> with the .ebuild copy from >>>>> Portage >>>>> >>>>> - Samuli >>>>> >>>> Thanks - that fixed it for me: >>>> >>>> # emerge -C xfce-base/xfce4-session xfce-extra/xfce4-power-manager >>>> xfce-extra/xfce4-systemload-plugin >>>> # emerge -uND xfce-base/xfce4-meta xfce-extra/xfce4-power-manager >>>> xfce-extra/xfce4-systemload-plugin >>>> >>>> >>>> Greetings >>>> Daniel >>>> >>> Unfortunately, this doesn't work for me. So let me re-cap: I have >>> >>> 4. masked virtual/udev-208-r2; that has not worked. >> First, remove that mask. Masking it will certainly cause more blockers, >> than solve them. >> >>> [ebuild N ~] mate-extra/mate-power-manager-1.6.3::mate-overlay >>> USE="applet policykit -gnome-keyring -man {-test}" 0 kB >>> [ebuild N ~] mate-base/mate-session-manager-1.6.1-r1::mate-overlay >>> USE="ipv6 -debug -systemd" 0 kB >>> >> see "::mate-overlay", it's presumably broken or outdated. stop using the >> overlay and use MATE from Portage instead. >> or you can mask the packages from overlay, the syntax is like: >> >> /etc/portage/package.mask >> >> mate-extra/mate-power-manager::mate-overlay >> mate-base/mate-session-manager::mate-overlay >> >> - Samuli >> >> > Thanks everybody for your help. I've made the further suggested > changes, but I remain with the three hard blocks. > > I've now spent about 7 hours over the last two days on this issue (about > 2x the fresh install time), when all I wanted to do was a routine > update. I've reworked a large part of my system, adding a new > package.mask file and populating it with six packages. > > I suppose its now time for an uninstall. Kind of disappointing; we are > told Gentoo is about choices, and in fact that's true. I made the > choice to use a pure openRC system. The last 7 hours of free time, > though, was spent trying, and ultimately failing, to correct a problem > not chosen, not wanted, and not invited. > > The sine qua non is unarguably systemd. Even though my choice was to > not deploy it, apparently it takes a significant time commitment and/or > developer-level knowledge to choose to not use it. Quite the inelegant > end to my once-trusty OS. >
Gentoo doesn't have write access to ::mate-overlay, it's completely unofficial Gentoo developers are just as much users as you are for ::mate-overlay Enough said - Samuli