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From: George Roberts <georoberts@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge block prob with gnome-core and gnome-desktop
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 04:34:01
Message-Id: 42E0758C.500@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] emerge block prob with gnome-core and gnome-desktop by Chris Bare
1 Chris Bare wrote:
2
3 >I'm trying to update a system that's been sitting idle for a while. I got the
4 >following blocks initially:
5 >
6 ># emerge -uD world
7 > [blocks B ] <perl-core/File-Spec-0.87 (is blocking dev-lang/perl-5.8.6-r5)
8 > [blocks B ] <=x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.8.2 (is blocking x11-themes/gtk-engines-2.6.3)
9 > [blocks B ] gnome-base/gnome-core (is blocking gnome-base/gnome-desktop-2.10.0)
10 > [blocks B ] gnome-base/gnome-desktop (is blocking gnome-base/gnome-core-1.4.2-r1)
11 >
12 >so I did:
13 >
14 ># emerge unmerge x11-themes/gnome-themes gnome-base/gnome-core gnome-base/gnome-desktop
15 >
16 >Now I get:
17 ># emerge -uD world
18 > [blocks B ] gnome-base/gnome-desktop (is blocking gnome-base/gnome-core-1.4.2-r1)
19 >
20 >but neither of them is installed:
21 >
22 ># emerge unmerge gnome-base/gnome-core
23 >
24 >--- Couldn't find gnome-base/gnome-core to unmerge.
25 >
26 >
27 >
28 >>>>unmerge: No packages selected for removal.
29 >>>>
30 >>>>
31 >
32 ># emerge unmerge gnome-base/gnome-desktop
33 >
34 >--- Couldn't find gnome-base/gnome-desktop to unmerge.
35 >
36 >
37 >
38 >>>>unmerge: No packages selected for removal.
39 >>>>
40 >>>>
41 >
42 >
43 >What do I have to do to clear the block?
44 >
45 >
46 >
47 What does emerge --oneshot gnome-core do for you?
48
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