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From: Uwe Thiem <uwix@××××.na>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] blocking package can't be found
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:57:35
Message-Id: 200804100857.03908.uwix@iway.na
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] blocking package can't be found by Iain Buchanan
1 On Thursday 10 April 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote:
2
3 > gtk-doc-am _does_ block gtk-doc. Since you already have gtk-doc
4 > installed, gtk-doc-am couldn't go ahead.
5 >
6 > Often with a blocker, you don't have the blockee already installed.
7 > ie. blocker-pkg blocks blockee-pkg, and both are required by other
8 > ebuilds...
9
10 I must be extraordinarily dense these days. I don't get it. How can a
11 non-installed package block an installed one? Somehow this doesn't
12 want to penetrate my skull. :-(
13
14 Uwe
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Re: [gentoo-user] blocking package can't be found Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@×××××××××××××.org>