On Tue, Oct 14, 2025 at 11:13 AM Mike Gilbert <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 13, 2025 at 10:15 PM D. Ben Knoble <[email protected]> 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? > > It looks like the vlock program is directly controlled by the "pam" > USE flag on sys-apps/kbd. It does not appear to affect any other > features. > > You could disable it like this: > > # echo "sys-apps/kbd -pam" >> /etc/portage/package.use
Indeed, thanks. After checking some documentation and the ebuild file, I agree that's the only affected component of kbd; plus the other vlock package is still PAM compatible. -- D. Ben Knoble
