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From: Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] sys-power/powermgmt-base blocks sys-power/pm-utils, but it's not installed yet
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 13:49:52
Message-Id: 1262785745.17773.18.camel@camille.espersunited.com
1 I was hoping that this was a dev boo-boo and would work itself out in
2 time, but it's been several days and it hasn't, so the problem must be
3 on my end. See the following listing:
4
5 Calculating dependencies ...... . ....... done!
6 [ebuild N ] sys-power/powermgmt-base-1.22
7 [ebuild U ] media-libs/libmikmod-3.2.0_beta2-r1 [3.1.11-r5]
8 [ebuild N ] sys-apps/apmd-3.2.2_p5 USE="X nls"
9 [ebuild N ] sys-power/pm-utils-1.2.5 USE="alsa -debug
10 -networkmanager -ntp" VIDEO_CARDS="-intel -radeon"
11 [blocks B ] sys-power/powermgmt-base ("sys-power/powermgmt-base" is
12 blocking sys-power/pm-utils-1.2.5)
13
14 * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
15 * installed at the same time on the same system.
16
17 ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-power/powermgmt-base-1.22', 'merge') pulled in by
18 >=sys-power/powermgmt-base-1.22 required by ('ebuild', '/',
19 'sys-apps/apmd-3.2.2_p5', 'merge')
20
21 ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-power/pm-utils-1.2.5', 'merge') pulled in by
22 sys-power/pm-utils required by ('installed', '/',
23 'kde-base/powerdevil-4.3.3', 'nomerge')
24
25 As you can see powermgmt-base is on the emerge list, as is pm-utils. I
26 installed kde-meta because my mother-in-law is visiting and she likes
27 kpatience and it didn't work anymore with kde-3.5. Now, how do I
28 resolve this block?

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