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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:53:31
Message-Id: 200804300853.18936.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior by John covici
1 On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote:
2 > I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world today and
3 > got the following strange message:
4 > [blocks B ] <gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.0 (is blocking
5 > dev-libs/libgweather-2.22.1.1)
6 >
7 > Now I have neither of these on my system, so what is the matter -- is
8 > portage insane? I think I have a couple of more like that as well.
9
10 Do you mean that you don't have these packages installed, or that they
11 are not even in portage? For the second case, re-sync. For the first
12 case, you need to find out what is pulling those packages in, and make
13 the necessary changes. This may help, you can also rerun your emerge
14 world with the "--tree" option to see what is going on:
15
16 alan@nazgul ~ $ equery depends -a gnome-applets
17 [ Searching for packages depending on gnome-applets... ]
18 gnome-base/gnome-2.20.3 (>=gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.20.1)
19 gnome-base/gnome-2.22.0 (>=gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.0)
20 gnome-base/gnome-2.22.1 (>=gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.1)
21 gnome-extra/shermans-aquarium-2.2.0 (>=gnome-base/gnome-applets-2)
22
23 alan@nazgul ~ $ equery depends -a libgweather
24 [ Searching for packages depending on libgweather... ]
25 gnome-base/gnome-2.22.0 (>=dev-libs/libgweather-2.22.0)
26 gnome-base/gnome-2.22.1 (>=dev-libs/libgweather-2.22.1.1)
27 gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.0 (>=dev-libs/libgweather-2.21.1)
28 gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.1 (>=dev-libs/libgweather-2.22.1)
29 gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.22.0 (>=dev-libs/libgweather-2.21.2)
30 gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.22.1.1 (>=dev-libs/libgweather-2.22.1)
31 gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.22.1.2 (>=dev-libs/libgweather-2.22.1)
32 gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.22.1.3 (>=dev-libs/libgweather-2.22.1)
33
34 Are you sure you didn't emerge gnome?
35
36
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38 Alan McKinnon
39 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
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Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior John covici <covici@××××××××××.com>