On 2020-07-21, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwa...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 2020-07-21, Peter Humphrey <pe...@prh.myzen.co.uk> wrote: >> On Tuesday, 21 July 2020 15:47:25 BST Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >>> Sync, re-emerge bind-tools and try again. The man pages are now >>> downloaded as a separate tarball, so Sphinx and deps are not longer >>> needed. >> >> And lo! 17 packages were removed by depclean! > > Before I can try that, I apparently have to enable the elogind USE > flag because of somthing else that changed since I sync'ed > yesterday. That only requires 6 new packages [...]
After that, X wouldn't start... another half-hour of googling and experimentation... switch my 'x' alias from using 'xinit' to 'startx', and now X is working again. ... and emerge --depclean removes all of the sphinx packages along with Babel, jinja, and a few others! So, I gained back the ground I lost yesterday to bind-tools, but lost some ground to elogind et alia. -- Grant
