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From: Alexander Meyer <ali@×××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage has blocking packages that are not installed
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 11:49:51
Message-Id: 42E8C554.3020007@geschmeidomatik.de
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] portage has blocking packages that are not installed by Janne Johansson
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4 Janne Johansson wrote:
5 > On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 13:27 +0200, Alexander Meyer wrote:
6 >
7 >
8 >>[blocks B ] <www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0-r3 (is blocking
9 >>media-libs/freetype-2.1.9-r1)
10 >
11 >
12 > What it says is that mozilla-firefox with a version number _smaller_
13 > than 1.0-r3 is blocking freetype.
14
15 oh! but why doesn't it say so?
16
17 >
18 > [...]
19 > ...and 1.0_pre-2 is smaller than 1.0-r3.
20 >
21 >>how can a package that is obviously not installed be blocking anything?
22 >
23 >
24 > It can't, but your package is installed and is blocking.
25
26 that certainly explains a lot!
27 >
28 > or update your firefox to a newer version.
29 >
30 already tried that. it wont build because of unmet dependencies. but i
31 know what to do now.
32
33 thanks a lot!
34
35 alexander
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Re: [gentoo-user] portage has blocking packages that are not installed Janne Johansson <jpjohans@×××××××××××.fi>
Re: [gentoo-user] portage has blocking packages that are not installed Alexander Meyer <ali@×××××××××××××××.de>