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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg-proto package blocks everything else.
Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2018 16:31:00
Message-Id: 20180325173041.3fcc3dbf@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: New xorg-proto package blocks everything else. by Ian Zimmerman
1 On Sun, 25 Mar 2018 08:10:29 -0700, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
2
3 > > The only hard block here appears to be xscrnsaverproto, unmerge that
4 > > and the rest should take care of themselves. I had all the soft
5 > > blocks today but not that one, and everything worked fine.
6 >
7 > But ... I actually have packages that depend on scrnsaverproto:
8 >
9 > matica!524 ~# equery d scrnsaverproto
10
11 equery d is unreliable, emerge -cav is a better check if deps.
12
13 > * These packages depend on scrnsaverproto:
14 > x11-base/xorg-server-1.19.5-r1 (>=x11-proto/scrnsaverproto-1.1)
15 > x11-libs/libXScrnSaver-1.2.2-r1
16 > (>=x11-proto/scrnsaverproto-1.2.2-r1[abi_x86_32(-)?,abi_x86_64(-)?,abi_x86_x32(-)?,abi_mips_n32(-)?,abi_mips_n64(-)?,abi_mips_o32(-)?,abi_ppc_32(-)?,abi_ppc_64(-)?,abi_s390_32(-)?,abi_s390_64(-)?])
17 > x11-misc/xautolock-2.2_p5_p1 (x11-proto/scrnsaverproto)
18 > x11-misc/xssstate-1.1 (x11-proto/scrnsaverproto)
19
20 When one package blocks another, it is often because both provide the
21 same files. It looks like xorg-proto is replacing a load f x11-proto
22 package. Remove the old one and let emerge work it out for you.
23
24 >
25 > So I have to unmerge xautolock and xssstate too?
26
27 Unlikely, because they will probably be satisfied by xorg-proto too, but
28 quickpkg anything you are going to remove, just in case.
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31 --
32 Neil Bothwick
33
34 "You know how dumb the average person is? Well, statistically, half of
35 them are even dumber than that" - Lewton, P.I.