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. 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."
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