New comment by p-kraszewski on void-packages repository https://github.com/void-linux/void-packages/issues/28779#issuecomment-780316947 Comment: @powerelastic Yes, for me `xbps-install` was globally broken, too. Hopefully, being trained on Gentoo I knew the drill :) @ericonr Is there any info, what **exactly** `removed-packages.xbps` is and how it interacts with system? Assuming your workaround does what _I mean_ it does (that is updates some sort of explicit package blacklist), it might be relatively safe to include a flag in `xbps-install` to temporarily disable `removed-packages` parsing altogether. I see 2 problems here: * there might be a better error message indicating that installed software depends on package marked for hard-removal and a hint for your workaround. * there might be a bug in dependency resolving algorithm causing early termination