consolekit / consolekit2

hi,

am having trouble upgrading ports on my 11.1 p1,
portmaster -a
wants to install consolekit2, but that conflicts with the currently installed consolekit. tried
portmaster -af
but that seems to have screwed up my system (besides stopping at the same spot as "-a", only 6 hours later), kwin isn't working well anymore and probably other things i haven't figured yet. removing consolekit would remove 194 other ports with it, so i don't want to go that route yet. consolekit2 also isn't available via pkg, so i'm stuck and couldn't find anything searching the web. anybody else with that problem?
thanks
markus
 
thanks, removing the package and not the dependencies helped. coming from debian i wasn't even aware of deleting a package and leaving behind the dependencies ;) so much to learn...

will look into ports-mgmt/synth as alternative.

sidenote regarding consolekit: bad idea imho to rename a project just to make a point and not to think about dependency issues that this might cause with users...
 
coming from debian i wasn't even aware of deleting a package and leaving behind the dependencies ;) so much to learn...

I never used Debian but I think dpkg does that by default.

It is very common indeed, IIRC Gentoo emerge just remove the target, the dependencies are handled by --depclean. And I think Arch Linux pacman follow the same behaviour if you use just the -R. :)

sidenote regarding consolekit: bad idea imho to rename a project just to make a point and not to think about dependency issues that this might cause with users...

I think sysutils/consolekit2 is not directly related with sysutils/consolekit, but a separated project. But I do not use it anyway.

EDIT:
ConsoleKit2 is a fork of ConsoleKit since it is no longer maintained. Information on ConsoleKit can be found at: http://freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/ConsoleKit/ William Jon McCann was the primary maintainer of ConsoleKit and most of this documentation was written by him for ConsoleKit. It has been adapted for ConsoleKit2.
 
haven't used dpkg very often, i normally would just have apt do the thinking and the work for me, and for years my philosophy was that if it wants to remove a package then something is wrong and one should think twice before proceeding. went well for me anyhow...

thanks again, am just finishing up the updates, let's see what broke after re- installing everything...
 
interesting possibility, thanks. fortunately it wasn't bad at all, just re- installed the nvidia driver (as usual after X related updates) and everything is fine now. thanks for your help, appreciate it.
 
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