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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kusoneko <kuson...@kusoneko.moe>
> Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2021 05:02
> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
> Cc: Kusoneko <kuson...@kusoneko.moe>
> Subject: [gentoo-user] news 2021-01-30-display-manager-init -- blocked
> package
>
>
> 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?
>
> Note: all 3 of the blocking packages and whatever pulls them in are
> NOT using the ~amd64 keyword at the moment, except for nvidia-drivers.
>
> Thanks for any help,
> Kusoneko.
You already solved, so this is just for other's info: in my case (unstable
amd64) I saw the news item, tried to emerge display-manager-init, got your same
block, let the emerge run to completion and _then_ succeeded emerging
display-manager-init, which is now running happily at startup.
raffaele
