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.
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Regards,
Tom
