On Sun, Jan 31, 2021 at 03:56:48PM +0100, Jacques Montier wrote: > Le dim. 31 janv. 2021 à 11:45, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> a écrit : > > > 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.To get > > > > 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 :) > > > > > > -- > > Neil Bothwick > > > > Normal people believe that if it ain't broke, don't fix it. Engineers > > believe that if it ain't broke, it doesn't have enough features yet." > > > > > > Hello all, > > To get display-manager-init built and installed, i had to accept_keywords : > xinit, sysvinit and xorg-server. > As specified in the news : > - changing the DISPLAYMANAGER variable in /etc/conf.d/display-manager > (lightdm for me) > - rc-update del xdm default > - rc-update add display-manager > - reboot > > Everything works fine. > > Cheers, > > Jacques
Thanks Jacques, your solution worked perfectly. Thanks for attempting to help Neil, however I did mention that I wished to deal with it asap rather than postpone it by unreading the news as I'll inevitably end up reading it again eventually and re-attempting it and face the same issue. Having it done and dealt with like this is easier for me. Kusoneko.
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