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From: Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] And I thought I understood blocks...
Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2009 16:57:01
Message-Id: 1254502614.27596.0.camel@camille.espersunited.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] And I thought I understood blocks... by Nikos Chantziaras
1 On Fri, 2009-10-02 at 19:17 +0300, Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
2 > Er, what the heck is this one:
3 >
4 > emerge -av1 x11-libs/libXScrnSaver
5 >
6 > These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
7 >
8 > Calculating dependencies... done!
9 > [ebuild N ] x11-proto/scrnsaverproto-1.2.0 49 kB
10 > [ebuild N ] x11-libs/libXScrnSaver-1.1.3 USE="-debug" 0 kB
11 > [blocks B ] <x11-libs/libXScrnSaver-1.2
12 > ("<x11-libs/libXScrnSaver-1.2" is blocking x11-proto/scrnsaverproto-1.2.0)
13 >
14 > Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 49 kB
15 > Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied)
16 >
17 > * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
18 > * installed at the same time on the same system.
19 >
20 > ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/libXScrnSaver-1.1.3', 'merge') pulled in by
21 > x11-libs/libXScrnSaver
22 >
23
24
25 Just offhand I'd say that you should emerge -C
26 <x11-libs/libXScrnSaver-1.2 before you emerge -av1
27 x11-libs/libXScrnSaver...