On 2025-10-14, D. Ben Knoble wrote: > New Gentoo user here, hello! > > I hope to emerge app-misc/vlock, but it conflicts as described above; > the "Blocked packages" section of the handbook does not give any > relevant advice for packages required by the kernel. > > I don't think deselecting sys-apps/kbd is a good idea, given it > provides things in addition to its own vlock that seems fairly > important. > > The app-misc/vlock provides "-s" to disable SysRq (for example, to > prevent killing vlock), which is why I'd like to install it. > > Any advice on how to proceed? > > PS The GitHub source link to vlock is dead; the only "mirror" I could > find is [1]. > > [1]: https://github.com/mattweidner/vlock
Disable the "pam" USE flag for sys-apps/kbd. -- Nuno Silva
