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From: Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] What is setting "<=x11-libs/openmotif-2.3.0" ????
Date: Wed, 02 Apr 2008 00:40:26
Message-Id: 20080402004044.GB29265@waltdnes.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] What is setting "<=x11-libs/openmotif-2.3.0" ???? by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 05:48:22AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote
2
3 > emerge unmerge openmotif
4 > emerge openmotif
5
6 Thanks; it worked. Actually, I unmerged openmotif, and then went
7 right to the update of world. I misread the diagnostic message...
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9 "<=x11-libs/openmotif-2.3.0 (is blocking x11-libs/openmotif-2.3.0-r1)"
10
11 ...as saying that some other program required a version of openmotif
12 which was <= 2.3.0. I figure that an older version of program x should
13 not be considered as a "block" to a newer version of program x. Isn't
14 that the whole point of "--update"?
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Re: [gentoo-user] What is setting "<=x11-libs/openmotif-2.3.0" ???? Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>
Re: [gentoo-user] What is setting "<=x11-libs/openmotif-2.3.0" ???? Dale <dalek1967@×××××××××.net>
Re: [gentoo-user] What is setting "<=x11-libs/openmotif-2.3.0" ???? Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] What is setting "<=x11-libs/openmotif-2.3.0" ???? Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>