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From: Janne Johansson <jpjohans@×××××××××××.fi>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage has blocking packages that are not installed
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:39:02
Message-Id: 1122550425.21495.4.camel@sd015
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] portage has blocking packages that are not installed by Alexander Meyer
1 On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 13:27 +0200, Alexander Meyer wrote:
2
3 > [blocks B ] <www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0-r3 (is blocking
4 > media-libs/freetype-2.1.9-r1)
5
6 What it says is that mozilla-firefox with a version number _smaller_
7 than 1.0-r3 is blocking freetype.
8
9 > but when i then try to unmerge firefox ("emerge unmerge
10 > mozilla-firefox") this is what i get:
11 >
12 > <snip>
13 > >>> These are the packages that I would unmerge:
14 >
15 > www-client/mozilla-firefox
16 > selected: 1.0_pre-r2
17
18 ...and 1.0_pre-2 is smaller than 1.0-r3.
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20
21 > how can a package that is obviously not installed be blocking anything?
22
23 It can't, but your package is installed and is blocking.
24
25 > and even more important: how do i resolve this issue? just unmerge the
26 > version of firefox that is installed?
27
28 or update your firefox to a newer version.
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31 Janne
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Re: [gentoo-user] portage has blocking packages that are not installed Alexander Meyer <ali@×××××××××××××××.de>