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From: Michael Schmarck <michael.schmarck@×××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Once again baffled by portage
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:53:30
Message-Id: 1523606.tFevDmHxuV@michael-schmarck.my-fqdn.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Once again baffled by portage by Grant Edwards
1 · Grant Edwards <grante@××××.com>:
2
3 > Why won't portage let me install kompare?
4
5 Because you already have it.
6
7 > # emerge --pretend kompare
8 >
9 > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
10 >
11 > Calculating dependencies... done!
12 > [ebuild N ] kde-base/kompare-3.5.7 USE="arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -kdehiddenvisibility -xinerama"
13 > [blocks B ] =kde-base/kompare-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdesdk-3.5.7)
14 > [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdesdk-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kompare-3.5.7)
15 >
16 > How does one figure out where these "blocks" are coming from?
17
18 By having a look in the ebuilds.
19
20 > There are no other versions of kompare installed.
21 > kde-base/kdesdk-3.5.7 _is_ installed. There is no mention of
22 > kde<anything> in /etc/portage/*.
23
24 I suppose kompare is part of kdesdk. kdesdk is a huge package containing
25 lots of stuff. So I suppose you cannot have both kdesdk and a broken
26 out package (kompare) installed at the same time.
27
28 > * kde-base/kdesdk
29 > Latest version available: 3.5.7
30 > Latest version installed: 3.5.7
31 > Size of files: 5,088 kB
32 > Homepage: http://www.kde.org/
33 > Description: KDE SDK: Cervisia, KBabel, KCachegrind, Kompare, Umbrello,...
34 > License: GPL-2
35
36 Yep. There it says: kdesdk also offers Kompare.
37
38 Hm, why would you want to install Kompare, if you already have it
39 installed?
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41 Michael Schmarck
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