[gentoo-user] upgrading a large package, say Xorg

[John Newman]

Hello,

Recently I went to emerge ipodder, a program I've never used before but
was interested in trying out.  Unfortunately it had a dependency on
pythonwx >= version 2.6, which in turn had a dependency on wxGTK >=  version 2.6, 
which in turn wanted me to upgrade my entire Xorg installation... (I'm
runnig 6.9).   Not particularly wanting to do this, I hacked my way
around it.  (seems it works just fine with wxGTK/wxpython 2.4, which
required no Xorg upgrade).

But later on I decided what the hell, I may as well upgrade X.  However,
when I attempt emerge xorg-base/xorg-x11, I get a whole list of
"Blocked" packages, the gist of it being my installation of
x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 is blocking... everything.  I was thinking that
emerge could handle this type of situation since I'm doing an upgrade -
that it would unmerge the old stuff and emerge the new stuff as it went
along.

Is my only option to manually unmerge my current x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9
(and I have hundreds of packages I've emerge'd that depend on it,
naturally), then emerge x11-base/xorg-x11 to get the new version (7.1 I
believe?).   Or is there a better way?

thanks for any and all advice for this Gentoo fan,


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