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From: Philip Webb <purslow@××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] And I thought I understood blocks...
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:37:30
Message-Id: 20091002163726.GA6395@ca.inter.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] And I thought I understood blocks... by Nikos Chantziaras
1 091002 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > Er, what the heck is this one:
3 > emerge -av1 x11-libs/libXScrnSaver
4 > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
5 > Calculating dependencies... done!
6 > [ebuild N ] x11-proto/scrnsaverproto-1.2.0 49 kB
7 > [ebuild N ] x11-libs/libXScrnSaver-1.1.3 USE="-debug" 0 kB
8 > [blocks B ] <x11-libs/libXScrnSaver-1.2
9
10 Faced with that, I would do
11
12 emerge -Cp libXScrnSaver
13 emerge -C libXScrnSaver
14 emerge -pv libXScrnSaver
15 emerge -1 libXScrnSaver
16
17 That's exactly what I'ld do, but you will amend it a bit for your needs.
18 In short, you remove the present version to free up the new one.
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