emerge Xorg before gnome? or doesn't matter??

[neybis]

Ok so I am pretty much a noob to linux that doesn't install itself. I finally got gentoo installed and booting. Now my next step is installing a desktop environment. If you would like to throw in your two cents on whether I should chose gnome or kde feel free as I am still undecided but gnome-look has some cool themes for gnome

so i found the gnome-howto and there is also an xorg install thingy. my main question is does xorg need to be installed before gnome? i followed the gnome howto immediately after being able to boot into gentoo (aren't i supposed to do something after changing USE variables?? like a depclean or something?) and i get this error:

Microknoppix / # emerge gnome
Calculating dependencies... done!

emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy ">=sys-auth/pambase-20090430[consolekit,-gnome-keyring]".
!!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request:
- sys-auth/pambase-20090620.1-r1 (Change USE: +consolekit)
(dependency required by "gnome-base/gdm-2.20.10-r2" [ebuild])
(dependency required by "gnome-base/gnome-2.26.3" [ebuild])d
(dependency required by "gnome" [argument])

Microknoppix / #


Mind you that I am doing this from Knoppix still as I can't figure out how to get my wireless working from a console. Figured once I get gnome installed I'll tackle the internet issue. Anyways...help?? lol



edit: as i ran emerge -pv xorg-server i realized the problem may be slightly more complicated

[neybis]

ok and just for the hell of it i tried emerge -pv xorg-server and got the following error:

...
...
...
[ebuild N ] x11-drivers/xf86-input-evdev-2.2.5 USE="-debug" 292 kB
[ebuild N ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-nv-2.1.14 USE="-debug" 372 kB
[ebuild N ] net-misc/netkit-rsh-0.17-r9 USE="pam" 89 kB
[ebuild N ] x11-apps/xsm-1.0.1-r1 USE="-debug" 115 kB
[blocks B ] <sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.41.8 ("<sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.41.8" is blocking sys-apps/util-linux-2.16.1)
[blocks B ] <sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.8 ("<sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.8" is blocking sys-apps/util-linux-2.16.1)

Total: 99 packages (1 upgrade, 97 new, 1 in new slot), Size of downloads: 51,304 kB
Conflict: 2 blocks (2 unsatisfied)

* Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
* installed at the same time on the same system.

('installed', '/', 'sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.41.3-r1', 'nomerge') pulled in by
sys-fs/e2fsprogs required by system
sys-fs/e2fsprogs required by world

('ebuild', '/', 'sys-apps/util-linux-2.16.1', 'merge') pulled in by
>=sys-apps/util-linux-2.16 required by ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/libSM-1.1.1', 'merge')
sys-apps/util-linux required by system
sys-apps/util-linux required by world


For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following
section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant):

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked

Microknoppix / #


:-/ maybe I just need to merge e2fsprogs-1.41.3-r1 and util-linux-2.16.1 seperately first and then try xorg-server??

[pcandme]

Maybe this link will be helpful to you:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-804640.html

It's my post I posted yesterday, and my second problem is exactly same with your problem. gsoe's reply did work well for me.

Good luck.
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pcandme

[Clad in Sky]

Hello neybis.

I think you're right about first emerging e2fsprogs separately. If the problem persists you might try emerging a newer version of e2fsprogs. While looking at my system I realized that I have version 1.41.9 of e2fsprogs - so, did you emerge --sync before? If you didn't, do it and then run emerge --update --deep --newuse world (or the shorthand for that which is provided in the post pcandme linked to).
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Now it's autumn of the aeons
Dance with your sword
Now it's time for the harvest

[cwr]

If you emerge Gnome, it will simply pull in whatever it needs from X11. However,
I always emerge xorg-x11 first, since (as you have found) there may be problems
and it's easier to tackle them one at a time.

Will