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From: Justin <justin@×××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] are blocks now "OK" with portage-2.1.6.7 ?
Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2009 21:25:32
Message-Id: 49BEC3C6.3020405@j-schmitz.net
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] are blocks now "OK" with portage-2.1.6.7 ? by Allan Gottlieb
1 Allan Gottlieb wrote:
2 > Gnome-light recently went stable on x86 so my last emerge world produced
3 > a long list of packages to merge. Fine.
4 >
5 > At the end it says
6 >
7 > Total: 93 packages (87 upgrades, 4 new, 2 reinstalls), Size of downloads: 223,796 kB
8 > Conflict: 3 blocks
9 > Portage tree and overlays:
10 > [0] /usr/portage
11 > [?] indicates that the source repository could not be determined
12 >
13 > Would you like to merge these packages? [Yes/No]
14 >
15 > Since it offers to merge and there are no B's in the list, I assume
16 > this version of portage resolved the blockage. However, there are
17 > nearly a hundred packages and some of them are important so I would like
18 > to confirm that it is OK to let portage merge these.
19 >
20 > thanks,
21 > allan
22 >
23 >
24
25 One of the big steps which are in the newer portage is version is the enhanced blocker resolution. So uit
26 should go easy with your update. I am running the gnome-2.24* package since along time and i was always fine.

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