> On 2025-10-14, D. Ben Knoble wrote: > > > New Gentoo user here, hello! > > > > I hope to emerge app-misc/vlock, but it conflicts as described above; > > the "Blocked packages" section of the handbook does not give any > > relevant advice for packages required by the kernel. > > > > I don't think deselecting sys-apps/kbd is a good idea, given it > > provides things in addition to its own vlock that seems fairly > > important. > > > > The app-misc/vlock provides "-s" to disable SysRq (for example, to > > prevent killing vlock), which is why I'd like to install it. > > > > Any advice on how to proceed? > > > > PS The GitHub source link to vlock is dead; the only "mirror" I could > > find is [1]. > > > > [1]: https://github.com/mattweidner/vlock > > Disable the "pam" USE flag for sys-apps/kbd. > > -- > Nuno Silva
Yep, that helped. Thanks! I noticed you didn't Reply-All, so I didn't receive your message. Is that normal around here?
