Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

[Samuli Suominen <ssuominen@gentoo.org>]

On 05/06/14 02:15, Dutch Ingraham wrote:
> On 06/04/2014 03:17 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote:
>> On 04/06/14 20:11, Dutch Ingraham wrote:
>>> On 06/04/2014 07:22 AM, Daniel Troeder wrote:
>>>> Am 04.06.2014 06:05, schrieb Samuli Suominen:
>>>>> On 04/06/14 05:17, Dutch Ingraham wrote:
>>>>>> No, "sys-fs/udev" is not masked, but an update is indicated in the
>>>>>> emerge above.  That's a good catch, the MATE stuff is from the overlay.
>>>>>>  Unfortunately, the xfce stuff is not, so even if the overlay currency
>>>>>> was an issue, I'll still be showing some dependencies.
>>>>>>
>>>>> Try re-emerging on un-emerging the offending packages, like
>>>>> xfce4-session and xfce4-power-manager,
>>>>> it has helped some people, to refresh the .ebuild copy that is installed
>>>>> with the .ebuild copy from
>>>>> Portage
>>>>>
>>>>> - Samuli
>>>>>
>>>> Thanks - that fixed it for me:
>>>>
>>>> # emerge -C xfce-base/xfce4-session xfce-extra/xfce4-power-manager
>>>> xfce-extra/xfce4-systemload-plugin
>>>> # emerge -uND xfce-base/xfce4-meta xfce-extra/xfce4-power-manager
>>>> xfce-extra/xfce4-systemload-plugin
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Greetings
>>>> Daniel
>>>>
>>> Unfortunately, this doesn't work for me.  So let me re-cap:  I have
>>>
>>> 4. masked virtual/udev-208-r2; that has not worked.
>> First, remove that mask. Masking it will certainly cause more blockers,
>> than solve them.
>>
>>> [ebuild  N    ~] mate-extra/mate-power-manager-1.6.3::mate-overlay
>>> USE="applet policykit -gnome-keyring -man {-test}" 0 kB
>>> [ebuild  N    ~] mate-base/mate-session-manager-1.6.1-r1::mate-overlay
>>> USE="ipv6 -debug -systemd" 0 kB
>>>
>> see "::mate-overlay", it's presumably broken or outdated. stop using the
>> overlay and use MATE from Portage instead.
>> or you can mask the packages from overlay, the syntax is like:
>>
>> /etc/portage/package.mask
>>
>> mate-extra/mate-power-manager::mate-overlay
>> mate-base/mate-session-manager::mate-overlay
>>
>> - Samuli
>>
>>
> Thanks everybody for your help.  I've made the further suggested
> changes, but I remain with the three hard blocks.
>
> I've now spent about 7 hours over the last two days on this issue (about
> 2x the fresh install time), when all I wanted to do was a routine
> update.  I've reworked a large part of my system, adding a new
> package.mask file and populating it with six packages.
>
> I suppose its now time for an uninstall.  Kind of disappointing; we are
> told Gentoo is about choices, and in fact that's true.  I made the
> choice to use a pure openRC system.  The last 7 hours of free time,
> though, was spent trying, and ultimately failing, to correct a problem
> not chosen, not wanted, and not invited.
>
> The sine qua non is unarguably systemd.  Even though my choice was to
> not deploy it, apparently it takes a significant time commitment and/or
> developer-level knowledge to choose to not use it.  Quite the inelegant
> end to my once-trusty OS.
>

Gentoo doesn't have write access to ::mate-overlay, it's completely
unofficial
Gentoo developers are just as much users as you are for ::mate-overlay

Enough said

- Samuli