blocked packages when trying to update | Gentoo Linux Community | Page 1

velvet tinsel Dec 22, 2025, 11:43 AM

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📎 log.txt

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download the txt to see everything, discord doesnt wanna show it all for some reason

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 12:14 PM

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We prefer logs via wgetpaste, for this reason

velvet tinsel Dec 22, 2025, 12:19 PM

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oh how do i do that

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i have the wgetpaste app installed already
but dont know how to use it

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 12:19 PM

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Could you share emerge -pvuDN --verbose-conflicts @world and emerge --info, and any contents of /etc/portage/package.use and /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords?

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 12:20 PM

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velvet tinsel i have the wgetpaste app installed already but dont know how to use it

wgetpaste -c 'command you want to capture the logs from'

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Note it starts a subshell, so dont pass --ask, or it'll sit waiting forever

velvet tinsel Dec 22, 2025, 12:20 PM

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Yes give me a sec

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Ok while the wgetpaste thiing is going,

Everything I have in package.accept_keywords:

jdk
beamy@gentoo ~ $ cat /etc/portage/package.accept_keywords/jdk 
idev-java/openjdk ~amd64
idev-java/openjdk-bin ~amd64
beamy@gentoo ~ $ ```

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And this s package.use

arctheme  gnome  grub  installkernel  libdrm  nvidia  pipewire  plasma  zz-autounmask
beamy@gentoo ~ $ cd /etc/portage/package.use
beamy@gentoo /etc/portage/package.use $ cat arctheme 
x11-themes/arc-theme xfce
beamy@gentoo /etc/portage/package.use $ cat gnome
net-misc/freerdp server
gnome-base/gnome gtk introspection -qt6
media-libs/libmediaart -qt6
dev-libs/folks eds
beamy@gentoo /etc/portage/package.use $ cat grub
sys-boot/grub mount
beamy@gentoo /etc/portage/package.use $ cat installkernel 
cat: installkernel: Permission denied
beamy@gentoo /etc/portage/package.use $ sudo cat installkernel 
Password: 
sys-kernel/installkernel dracut
beamy@gentoo /etc/portage/package.use $ cat libdrm 
x11-libs/libdrm video_cards_radeon
beamy@gentoo /etc/portage/package.use $ cat nvidia
x11-drivers/nvidia-drivers tools kernel-open dist-kernel
beamy@gentoo /etc/portage/package.use $ cat pipewire 
media-video/pipewire pipewire-alsa sound-server jack-sdk X wayland
beamy@gentoo /etc/portage/package.use $ cat plasma 
kde-plasma/plasma-meta -crash-handler -crypt
kde-plasma/kwin lock
kde-plasma/kwin-x11 lock
beamy@gentoo /etc/portage/package.use $ cat zz-autounmask 
beamy@gentoo /etc/portage/package.use $ ```

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Thsi is the emerge -pvuDN:
https://bpa.st/EDCA

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And this is emerge --info:
https://bpa.st/QIMA

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Also here is make.conf if u need it

# These settings were set by the catalyst build script that automatically
# built this stage.
# Please consult /usr/share/portage/config/make.conf.example for a more
# detailed example.
COMMON_FLAGS="-O2 -pipe"
CFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"
CXXFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"
FCFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"
FFLAGS="${COMMON_FLAGS}"
MAKEOPTS="-j6"
USE="X wayland pipewire bluetooth dbus elogind pam policykit vulkan opencl opengl flatpak dist-kernel screencast egl gbm -systemd"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs=6"

# NOTE: This stage was built with the bindist USE flag enabled
VIDEO_CARDS="nvidia amdgpu radeonsi"
# This sets the language of build output to English.
# Please keep this setting intact when reporting bugs.
LC_MESSAGES=C.UTF-8
FEATURES="getbinpkg binpkg-request-signature"
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64"```

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 12:32 PM

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hmmmmm

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anything in package.mask?

velvet tinsel Dec 22, 2025, 12:32 PM

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Lemme see

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Nothjing

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empty dir

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 12:36 PM

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[blocks B      ] <dev-qt/qtwayland-6.10.1:6 ("<dev-qt/qtwayland-6.10.1:6" is soft blocking dev-qt/qtbase-6.10.1)
[blocks B      ] <dev-qt/qtwayland-5.15.18:5 ("<dev-qt/qtwayland-5.15.18:5" is soft blocking dev-qt/qtcore-5.15.18)
[blocks B      ] <dev-qt/qtgui-5.15.18:5 ("<dev-qt/qtgui-5.15.18:5" is soft blocking dev-qt/qtcore-5.15.18)
[blocks B      ] <dev-qt/qtsvg-6.10.1:6 ("<dev-qt/qtsvg-6.10.1:6" is soft blocking dev-qt/qtbase-6.10.1)
[blocks B      ] <dev-qt/qtdeclarative-6.10.1:6 ("<dev-qt/qtdeclarative-6.10.1:6" is soft blocking dev-qt/qtbase-6.10.1)
[blocks B      ] <dev-qt/qtdbus-5.15.18:5 ("<dev-qt/qtdbus-5.15.18:5" is soft blocking dev-qt/qtcore-5.15.18)
``` appears to be the issue. Something is insisting on pulling the older versions of these packages

velvet tinsel Dec 22, 2025, 12:38 PM

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I did this gentoo install a month ago and just now decided to update since i dont rly use this machine
anyways, again if it helps, i have gnome, kde, xfce4 and sddm installed

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firefox-bin,flatpak and openjdk

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 12:38 PM

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Hmm looking again your sync didn't complete, that might be it

velvet tinsel Dec 22, 2025, 12:38 PM

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Yea ive seen it not working

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 12:38 PM

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what does emerge --sync have to say?

velvet tinsel Dec 22, 2025, 12:38 PM

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I thoought i pasted that

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It says permission denied to something

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> Syncing repository 'gentoo' into '/var/db/repos/gentoo'...
> /usr/bin/git fetch origin --depth 1
> error: cannot open '.git/FETCH_HEAD': Permission denied
> !!! git fetch error in /var/db/repos/gentoo
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>  * IMPORTANT: config file '/etc/ssh/sshd_config' needs updating.
>  * See the CONFIGURATION FILES and CONFIGURATION FILES UPDATE TOOLS
>  * sections of the emerge man page to learn how to update config files.
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>  * IMPORTANT: 30 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
>  * Use eselect news read to view new items.
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> Action: sync for repo: gentoo, returned code = 255
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> gentoo /home/beamy #```

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 12:39 PM

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try as sudo

velvet tinsel Dec 22, 2025, 12:39 PM

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im root

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 12:39 PM

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🤔

velvet tinsel Dec 22, 2025, 12:39 PM

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but here it is

gentoo /home/beamy # emerge --sync
> Syncing repository 'gentoo' into '/var/db/repos/gentoo'...
> /usr/bin/git fetch origin --depth 1
> error: cannot open '.git/FETCH_HEAD': Permission denied
> !!! git fetch error in /var/db/repos/gentoo
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>  * IMPORTANT: config file '/etc/ssh/sshd_config' needs updating.
>  * See the CONFIGURATION FILES and CONFIGURATION FILES UPDATE TOOLS
>  * sections of the emerge man page to learn how to update config files.
> 
>  * IMPORTANT: 30 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'.
>  * Use eselect news read to view new items.
> 
> 
> Action: sync for repo: gentoo, returned code = 255
> 
> 
> gentoo /home/beamy # 
> ```

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openrc

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desktop profile

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should i try chmod +x?

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maybe it will do somethinig

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 12:42 PM

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Hmm 🤔 Methinks your repo is borked somehow. ls -l /var/db/repos/gentoo/.git/FETCH_HEAD ?

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 12:42 PM

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velvet tinsel should i try chmod +x?

I don't think it needs to be executable

velvet tinsel Dec 22, 2025, 12:42 PM

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gentoo /home/beamy # ls -l /var/db/repos/gentoo/.git/FETCH_HEAD
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 109 Dec 22 13:21 /var/db/repos/gentoo/.git/FETCH_HEAD

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 12:43 PM

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Looks fine to me. Permission denied 🤔

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strange

velvet tinsel Dec 22, 2025, 12:43 PM

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i said its weird

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should i just reinstall gentoo? 😭

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 12:44 PM

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Not for a dodgy repo mirror

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I think mv /var/db/repos/gentoo /var/db/repos/gentoo.bak and then emerge --sync

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yeet the old borked repo and try again

velvet tinsel Dec 22, 2025, 12:45 PM

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Will that regen it?

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okayy its cloning something with git

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 12:45 PM

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yep, I just tested it

velvet tinsel Dec 22, 2025, 12:46 PM

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Its working omg

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returned code 0

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 12:46 PM

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That's potentially good!

velvet tinsel Dec 22, 2025, 12:46 PM

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Ok so now emerge -avugDN @world right?

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 12:47 PM

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See what it says!

velvet tinsel Dec 22, 2025, 12:48 PM

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its calculating deps for a bit longer than before that mightve been the fix

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 12:48 PM

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🤞

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Two reasons I can think of that would make portage pull old packages like that;

something in /etc/portage is forcing it (why I asked to see accept_keywords, use and mask)
borked repo

velvet tinsel Dec 22, 2025, 12:52 PM

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ooffff stiill not working

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should i do the wgetpaste?

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 12:52 PM

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pretty please

velvet tinsel Dec 22, 2025, 12:52 PM

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pvuDN?

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 12:54 PM

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something like that, yep

velvet tinsel Dec 22, 2025, 12:54 PM

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whats p btw

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 12:54 PM

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pretend

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does everythig but the merge, good for experimenting

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bonus is that it doesn't need superuser

velvet tinsel Dec 22, 2025, 12:55 PM

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welp im doing all this as root

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https://bpa.st/JXPA

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i also have some things in eselect news read

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 1:00 PM

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velvet tinsel https://bpa.st/JXPA

Hm I can't reproduce this, and the only significant thing I can see in your emerge --info is you have ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="amd64 ~amd64"

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https://bpa.st/HYJA see here for when I pretend emerge plasma-meta

velvet tinsel Dec 22, 2025, 1:01 PM

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do i need to add / remove something in my make.conf?

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i dont have important stuff on here

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so i can do anything

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i installed neovim rn it worked perfectly so the sync worked

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 1:10 PM

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hmmmmmmmm

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Bit of a long shot maybe, but what does emerge -pc say?

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In my testing I don't get plasma-meta pulling qtwayland

velvet tinsel Dec 22, 2025, 1:14 PM

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lemme see

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 1:14 PM

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ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" USE="avif qml icu cups vulkan libproxy lock" emerge -p plasma-meta 2>&1 | grep qtwayland shows nothing, for me

velvet tinsel Dec 22, 2025, 1:15 PM

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Can i remove it then

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 1:15 PM

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emerge -pc will say

velvet tinsel Dec 22, 2025, 1:15 PM

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📎 message.txt

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Have you forgotten to do a complete update prior to depclean? The
most comprehensive command for this purpose is as follows:
emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world

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i never ran this

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first time updating this install

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 1:16 PM

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that's emerge -uDN @world, --with-bdeps=y is default on afaik

velvet tinsel Dec 22, 2025, 1:16 PM

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so is my install cooked?

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 1:17 PM

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parboiled

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 1:18 PM

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velvet tinsel

That's confusing, though. Have you ever run an --unmerge or --rageclean ?

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Specifically on virtual/zlib 🤔

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That might be 110% a red herring

velvet tinsel Dec 22, 2025, 1:19 PM

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No

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Just depclean

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I said this is a newish install

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I never updated it before, everythiing i have installed is installed without updates

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from the tarball release

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yoYOyoYO

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YO YO

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BRO

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I ran the ommand it asked me to run (emerge --update --newuse --deep --with-bdeps=y @world) And ITS WORKING

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 1:22 PM

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thonk

velvet tinsel Dec 22, 2025, 1:22 PM

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rces for kernel version:

```
6.17.6-gentoo-dist
```

Emerging (1 of 364) sys-libs/glibc-2.42-r3::gentoo

Jobs: 0 of 364 complete, 1 running Load avg: 1.56, 1.18, 0.97

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i hope its also pulling binary packages im not ready to wait 10h

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and i also dont have storage spae

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So the emerge --sync was the problem

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 1:23 PM

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velvet tinsel i hope its also pulling binary packages im not ready to wait 10h

ah no, cancel that and put -g or --getbinpkg on it

velvet tinsel Dec 22, 2025, 1:23 PM

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Tbh i dont need gnome, how do i remove it

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i installed gnomelight

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 1:24 PM

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bold crypt that's `emerge -uDN @world`, --with-bdeps=y is default on afaik

man emerge interesting

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 1:24 PM

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velvet tinsel Tbh i dont need gnome, how do i remove it

--deselect what you want gone, and if nothing else pulls it, depclean will suggest it gets removed

velvet tinsel Dec 22, 2025, 1:25 PM

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uh

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gentoo /home/beamy # emerge --deselect gnome-light

No matching atoms found in "world" favorites file...
gentoo /home/beamy # emerge --deselect gnome

No matching atoms found in "world" favorites file...
gentoo /home/beamy #

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 1:25 PM

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one supposes something else is pulling it

velvet tinsel Dec 22, 2025, 1:27 PM

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anyways thats something i have to figure out, TYSM FOR HELPING ME FIX MY ISSUE!!!

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 1:29 PM

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No probs, although I don't quite understand what was wrong 😄

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PS you might want to nuke that repo backup, just for neatness - the one in /var/db/repos/gentoo.bak

velvet tinsel Dec 22, 2025, 1:30 PM

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bold crypt No probs, although I don't quite understand what was wrong 😄

The sync repo git repo had something with perms

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Yea good catch

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 1:30 PM

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velvet tinsel The sync repo git repo had something with perms

The dep conflicts still happened once we solved that though

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I didnt expected --with-bdeps=y to be the solution

velvet tinsel Dec 22, 2025, 1:31 PM

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Its not the first time it fixed something

bold crypt Dec 22, 2025, 1:31 PM

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bold crypt `man emerge` interesting

Oooooh actually, if you had qtwayland already installed, maybe that doesn't count for what it says here

#blocked packages when trying to update