Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 02 February 2010 12:47:46 David Relson wrote: > >> I've been running unstable versions of portage for many months and >> currently have 2.1.7.17, which _is_ the newest non-masked version. > > Nevertheless, it isn't the latest version. To get that you need an entry in > package.unmask; then portage will be able to sort out far more complex > problems than the unmasked version can. Don't worry - many people here have > been doing this for many months, with no problems attributable to portage. >
I'm not sure if upgrading portage to a masked version is a sane solution for the OP's issue (i.e. resolving a single dependency issue). Reading the error output from portage (and sometimes the ebuild) to solve the blocker (as people do who run a stable portage) would suffice, imho. As for the issue with openrc: =sys-apps/openrc-0.6.0-r1 depends on =sys-apps/sysvinit-2.87-r3, and both are in ~arch. Unmask both, emerge them, run etc-update and be fine. -- Regards, Tom