Re: [gentoo-user] must/should systemd users package.mask upower-pm-utils

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On 29/06/2014 22:09, gottlieb@nyu.edu wrote:
> My desktop is a fully stable (empty package.accept_keywords) systemd
> system.  The profile is .../gnome/system and it boots init=systemd.
> 
> The 3 june news asserts "all systemd users are recommended to stay with
> sys-power/upower".
> 
> However update world wants to uninstall upower and install
> upower-pm-utils.
> 
> Adding sys-power/upower-pm-utils to /etc/package.mask, "fixed" the
> problem, but I wonder if I chose an appropriate fix.  I was a little
> surprised that a stable system would need an entry in package.mask.
> 
> Any advice would be appreciated,
> allan
> 
> PS I realize that the news item concerned hibernate/suspend so is not
> relevant, but the same issue uninstall/install occurs on my laptop.
> Those systems have a less simple "goingstable" setup and are more
> important to me so I prefer to first change the fully stable desktop.


Are you still dealing with this same output you posted about on the 26th?

Calculating dependencies... done!

[ebuild     U  ] x11-wm/sawfish-1.9.1-r2 [1.9.1-r1] USE="emacs%* nls
-xinerama" 2,556 kB
[nomerge       ] gnome-base/gnome-3.10.0:2.0  USE="bluetooth cdr classic
cups extras -accessibility"
[nomerge       ]  gnome-base/gnome-shell-3.10.4-r2  USE="bluetooth i18n
networkmanager (-openrc-force)" PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7"
[nomerge       ]   sys-power/upower-pm-utils-0.9.23-r2
USE="introspection -ios"
[blocks b      ]    sys-power/upower ("sys-power/upower" is blocking
sys-power/upower-pm-utils-0.9.23-r2)
[uninstall     ]     sys-power/upower-0.9.23-r3  USE="introspection -doc
-ios"
[ebuild  N     ]   sys-power/upower-pm-utils-0.9.23-r2
USE="introspection -ios" 0 kB

That is gnome-shell pulling in upower || upower-pm-utils and for some
reason it chose the one you do not want.

Using package.mask is valid (it's a documented tool and not only for
~arch - all it means is that you do not want the listed packages and
there could be many reasons for that) but it does seem a bit heavy-handed.

Normally, manually installing upower should be enough to satisfy the dep
and keep upower-pm-utils off your machine, but bugs are possible I suppose.

Is there any bugs on b.g.o. about this?
Run emerge with -t and post the relevant section, let's see why the
wrong package is being pulled in. Also the output of

equery depends upower
equery depends upower-pm-utils






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Alan McKinnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com