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On Thursday, May 22, 2014 05:08:17 PM Zoltán Kócsi wrote: |
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> Hi, |
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> I'm fairly new to Gentoo and I have a blocking issue which I don't |
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> really understand. |
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> I want to install some packages with docs but emerge tells me that it |
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> can't do that. Quite interestingly it complains about blocked packages. |
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> One of them is openrc and the other is linux-util. I don't want to |
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> delete either one, and wisely so, because even emerge tells me that |
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> they are part of my system profile and should not be deleted. |
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> Now the actual questions I have are the following: |
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> - Why does emerge complain about blocking packages when I want to |
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> recompile a few *other* packages, already on the system and all I |
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> want is their documentation created? |
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> - If those two packages do indeed block each other, why are they in my |
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> system profile, which was set up by Gentoo itself when I installed |
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> the system? |
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> - If they block each other, how did both get installed on the machine? |
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> - Why do they block each other? As far as I could see, they are not |
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> clashing, one is a SysV type init scripts and the 'rc' binary and the |
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> other is all sorts of utilities and system management stuff. |
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> Thanks, |
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> Zoltan |
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Can you send the actual emerge-output you are seeing along with the full |
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emerge-command you are issuing? |
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Many thanks, |
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Joost |
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