Re: [gentoo-user] gvim emerge problems

[Bo Ørsted Andresen]

On Monday 26 February 2007 12:47:12 Stuart Howard wrote:
> I have commented out the ~* from /etc/portage/package,keywords on both
> gvim and vim, and the issue has gone away and all is well again.
> Though I admit I am a tad confuzzeled as to what the issue was.
> I thought wrongly that I had the latest ~* versions of both gvim and
> vim installed along with the appropriate vim-core, it turns out that I
> had stable but it was calling ~* due to the package,keywords file
> though I dont understand quite why the stable versions could not be
> updated to include all matching versions of gvim vim vimcore in
> testing?

It's not exactly clear to me what's so hard to understand here. You had gvim 
and vim-core in your package.keywords in effect requesting version 7.0.201 of 
both of those. You didn't have vim in package.keywords in effect requesting 
7.0.174 of that. vim-7.0.174 depends on vim-core-7.0.174 which cannot coexist 
with vim-core-7.0.201 as it isn't slotted.

That leaves two possible solutions. 1) Removing gvim and vim-core from 
package.keywords as you seem to have done. 2) Adding vim to package.keywords.

PS: Please don't top-post.

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Bo Andresen