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From: Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:23:58
Message-Id: 87ljvon16i.fsf@newsguy.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem by Volker Armin Hemmann
1 Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de> writes:
2
3 > Just install the latest portage. It has a block breaking function. Then
4 > upgrade e2fsprogs like described a few douzend times on this ml and in the
5 > forums. Remove all the acient video drivers you don't need anyway. After that,
6 > most blocks should be gone.
7
8 Got that part fixed what about this:
9 From emerge -vuDNpt system
10
11 [...]
12
13 [nomerge ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.2 [1.4.2]
14 [nomerge ] x11-libs/libpciaccess-0.10.5 USE="-debug -minimal" [0]
15 [blocks b ] <x11-base/xorg-server-1.5 ("<x11-base/xorg-server-1.5" is blocking x11-libs/libpciaccess-0.10.5)
16 [ebuild U ] x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.2 [1.4.2]
17 [ebuild N ] x11-libs/libpciaccess-0.10.5 USE="-debug
18
19 [...]
20
21 I may have trimmed that down too much .. there was a very long line of
22 stuff after the xorg-server entries.
23
24 I tried installed emerge -v x11-base/xorg-server and
25 x11-libs/libpciaccess separately by themselves without the -uDN part
26 but that fails too.
27
28 Not too easy to see how to get around this.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>