On Tuesday 03 June 2014 09:29:35 Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > If I understood correctly, you need to: > > emerge -C sys-power/upower > emerge -1v sys-power/upower-pm-utils > > and then update world as usual.
That worked for me - thanks Canek. Portage no longer tries to break a blockage circle, and even though upower-pm-utils is emerged with -1, emerge -c doesn't want to remove it. Maybe a news item explaining the switch of upower would help those who haven't blundered into this yet. > The changes in upower does not make systemd mandatory, but you need to > switch from upower (which now has systemd as a hard dependency) to > upower-pm-utils (which depends on the unmaintined pm-utils). -- Regards Peter
