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From: Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@×××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] blocking package can't be found
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 08:24:56
Message-Id: 200804101028.19032.shrdlu@unlimitedmail.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] blocking package can't be found by Uwe Thiem
1 On Thursday 10 April 2008, 09:57, Uwe Thiem wrote:
2
3 > > Often with a blocker, you don't have the blockee already installed.
4 > > ie. blocker-pkg blocks blockee-pkg, and both are required by other
5 > > ebuilds...
6 >
7 > I must be extraordinarily dense these days. I don't get it. How can a
8 > non-installed package block an installed one? Somehow this doesn't
9 > want to penetrate my skull. :-(
10
11 As I read it, the /blocker/ must be installed, whereas the /blockee/ not.
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