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 see "::mate-overlay", it's presumably broken or outdated.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.
