Re: [gentoo-user] blocked packages both required by the system sys-apps/openrc vs. sys-apps/net-tools?

[Pascal J. Bourguignon]

Matthias Hanft <mh@×××××.de> wrote:

> Pascal J. Bourguignon wrote:
> >
> > I just emerged --sync and now when I try to update world, I get this
> > conflict: [...]
>
> I had the same problem.  Since openrc was not in my world file (pulled in
> automatically), it was not scheduled for update.  The solution was to use
> "emerge -Duv world" including "deep" dependencies.  This caused updating
> net-tools and openrc at the *same* time without any errors.

Indeed, I was doing emerge --update expecting the behavior of 
emerge -Du.  The later works much better.


Thank you (and all others who replied).
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