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I have a ~amd64 system on which I am trying to emerge world. |
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First, what are the proper options to pass to this command? Several |
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packages will not compile, and Duncan has suggested an emerge world to |
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clean things up. Well, right now is a good time for me ... |
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Second, when I try emever -pve world, I get the following complaints: |
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Calculating world dependencies |
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..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ... done! |
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[blocks B ] kde-base/kde-env (is blocking kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.5-r5) |
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[blocks B ] >=kde-base/kdelibs-3.5.4-r2 (is blocking kde-base/kde-env-3-r4) |
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[blocks B ] www-client/mozilla (is blocking www-client/seamonkey-1.0.6) |
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[blocks B ] <dev-python/pygtk-2.9 (is blocking dev-python/pygobject-2.12.2) |
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1. What's the scoop on kde-env vs kdelibs? |
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2. Ditto for pygtk vs pygobject. |
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This happens aperiodically. Some new package obsoletes another |
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package, but nothing documents it, nothing tells me what to do. Do I |
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unmerge the existing package and install the new one? My experience |
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has been mixed. Sometimes I can unmerge the old package, emerge the |
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new package, and then re-emerge the old package ... and everything is |
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happy from the on. Other times there are some old packages which |
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still want the old package, other old packages want the new package, |
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and they can't coexist. |
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Then we come to the real annoyance, |
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3. Mozilla vs Seamonkey. I tried Seamonkey a couple of times, and it |
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crashed so often and so quickly that I reverted to mozilla. Now it |
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seems there are quite a few packages which insist on seamonkey and |
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are not satisfied with mozilla. |
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I use firefox, but I also use mozilla. Mozilla has a better config |
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interface to my tastes. I may try seamonkey again someday, but |
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right now, I don't want seamonkey. |
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Why do some packages explicitly care about seamonkey? Shouldn't |
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they be pretty much the same? Shouldn't the dependencies be happy |
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with either one? |
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In the meantime, is there some way to convince emerge that |
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seamonkey has been installed and to not get its knickers in a |
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twist? I suppose I could always unmerge mozilla, emerge world, |
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unmerge seamonkey, and emerge mozilla again, but I get tired of |
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having to kick out half a dozen packages like totem, gedit, |
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gnome-base, epiphany, etc from the ordinary updates just to get |
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them working. |
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