After replacing xbacklight with acpilight (emerge -C x11-apps/xbacklight && emerge sys-power/acpilight), next emerge -uDU @world shows this blocker: These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order: Calculating dependencies... done! [nomerge ] x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4-r2::gentoo [ebuild N ] x11-apps/xbacklight-1.2.1-r1::gentoo 115 KiB [blocks B ] x11-apps/xbacklight ("x11-apps/xbacklight" is blocking sys-power/acpilight-1.0) Total: 1 package (1 new), Size of downloads: 115 KiB Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied) * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be * installed at the same time on the same system. (x11-apps/xbacklight-1.2.1-r1:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by x11-apps/xbacklight required by (x11-base/xorg-x11-7.4-r2:0/0::gentoo, installed) (sys-power/acpilight-1.0:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by sys-power/acpilight required by @selected For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant): https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Working/Portage#Blocked_packages
Blocking was wrong. Lumina does not need the full x11-base/xorg-x11
I'm hitting this too. x11-apps/xbacklight doesn't work on my laptop. sys-power/acpilight does.
it seems this meta is obsolete now as I can read in bug 541762, then, either it's fixed or it should be treecleaned... but keeping it in the tree with this known bugs doesn't look to me like too optimal :/
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=cd3ab53327dcc8b63148cb2891c9700f2dd12b1c commit cd3ab53327dcc8b63148cb2891c9700f2dd12b1c Author: charIes17 <charles17@arcor.de> AuthorDate: 2017-12-15 18:56:03 +0000 Commit: Matt Turner <mattst88@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2018-05-08 22:06:49 +0000 x11-base/xorg-x11: Allow sys-power/acpilight Allow to install sys-power/acpilight instead of x11-apps/xbacklight Also bump to EAPI=6 Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/622678 Closes: https://github.com/gentoo/gentoo/pull/6559 x11-base/xorg-x11/xorg-x11-7.4-r3.ebuild | 149 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 149 insertions(+)
