Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2014 at 8:18 AM
From: "Samuli Suominen" <ssuominen@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Systemd upower

On 05/06/14 15:17, Dutch Ingraham wrote:
> On 06/05/2014 08:00 AM, Samuli Suominen wrote:
>> On 05/06/14 14:39, Dutch Ingraham wrote:
>>> On 06/04/2014 08:02 PM, Samuli Suominen wrote:
>>>> 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
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Sorry, but this isn't just a MATE overlay problem. Once I made your
>>> suggested changes, the MATE "mask change" requests disappeared. What I
>>> did get was XFCE mask requirements:
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> The following mask changes are necessary to proceed:
>>> (see "package.unmask" in the portage(5) man page for more details)
>>> # required by xfce-base/xfce4-meta-4.10
>>> # required by @selected
>>> # required by @world (argument)
>>> # /etc/portage/package.mask:
>>> # problems with systemd, upower shift to upower.pm.utils
>>> =xfce-base/xfce4-session-4.10.1-r1
>>> # required by virtual/udev-208-r2
>>> # required by sys-power/upower-0.9.23-r3
>>> # required by xfce-base/xfce4-session-4.10.1-r1[udev]
>>> # required by xfce-base/xfce4-meta-4.10
>>> # required by @selected
>>> # required by @world (argument)
>>> # /etc/portage/package.mask:
>>> # problems with systemd, upower shift to upower.pm.utils
>>> =sys-apps/systemd-212-r5
>>> # required by sys-apps/systemd-212-r5[-vanilla]
>>> # required by sys-power/upower-0.9.23-r3
>>> # required by xfce-base/xfce4-session-4.10.1-r1[udev]
>>> # required by xfce-base/xfce4-meta-4.10
>>> # required by @selected
>>> # required by @world (argument)
>>> # /etc/portage/package.mask:
>>> # problems with systemd, upower shift to upower.pm.utils
>>> =sys-apps/gentoo-systemd-integration-4
>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> I had already <emerge - C>'d those two XFCE applications because, early
>>> in this process an <equery depends upower> had shown them to be
>>> dependent upon "upower" even after emerging "upower-pm-utils." I have
>>> no confidence at this point that my particular problem is reasonably
>>> solvable, as I have been caught in this circle for three days now.
>>>
>> There is no need to mask any Xfce packages, in fact, masking them would
>> cause more blockers.
>> So that output would be bogus, as it would include the wrong Xfce masks,
>> and futhermore it's only end of
>> the output, so it wouldn't tell the necessary information required for
>> solving it anyway.
>> Remove anykind of Xfce masks and post complete output, and don't forget
>> to use the --tree flag (-t) to see
>> what is pulling in what.
>> That is, if you still want help solving the issue.
>>
>> - Samuli
>>
>>
> I I've removed the XFCE masks. Note that mate-power-manager is masked.

I see you didn't follow the recommendation of getting rid of the
::mate-overlay because
I'm still seeing mate-base/mate::mate-overlay and more in the output
I don't know how we could possible get forward if you don't follow-up on
the already
suggested instructions, no wonder you've been running circles.

Uninstall mate-overlay, emerge -C mate mate-power-manager
mate-session-manager and
anything else you have installed from there. Let Portage pull them back
in from the actual
Portage tree.

Samuli - thanks for your response. I had already done the emerge -C mate-power-manager and mate-session.

I did not uninstall the overlay because equery depends upower showed no remaining dependencies.

I will give it a go and try and convert from the overlay to the portage repository.