Re: [gentoo-user] Omitting blocked package when updating world

[Walter Dnes]

On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 07:09:05PM -0400, C. Beamer wrote
> Hi,
>
> I've had Gentoo installed on my main computer for about a month now and
> want to update world.
>
> When I did 'emerge --pretend --update --deep world'  I got told that a
> package that I had installed was blocking another package.  I want to
> update but omit the blocked package from the update, which incidentally
> is not installed on my system.
>
> I looked in the Gentoo documentation which told me that I had 2 options
> - to omit the blocked package or remove the blocked package.  Since the
> blocked package is not installed on my system, my only option is to
> omit, but I couldn't find how to omit it in the documentation.  Nor,
> could I figure out from the man page how to do it.

  Please post a copy of what you get when you run...
  emerge --pretend --update --deep --world

  It'll help us better understand what your exact problem is.  In
general, if you're asking about *ANY* Gentoo problem, it helps to have
the error listing as part of your post.

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