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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage: missing pieces
Date: Thu, 06 Jul 2006 17:09:51
Message-Id: 7573e9640607060954j67ae48b0x4d1891d611d18b96@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage: missing pieces by Molle Bestefich
1 On 7/6/06, Molle Bestefich <molle.bestefich@×××××.com> wrote:
2 >
3 > ... snip ...
4 >
5 > Any other suggestions?
6
7 Dont "snip". The relevant part comes *after* the "blocks" lines.
8
9 Also, you are mis-interpreting the "blocks" lines. The correct
10 reading of "X (is blocking Y)" is that you have (or should have) X
11 installed, and now portage wants to install Y instead. Usually this
12 is because Y supercedes the functionality that used to be provided by
13 X, and in almost all cases, the right thing to do is to unmerge X and
14 merge Y.
15
16 The exceptions on your system are pam-login/shadow, and
17 seamonkey/mozilla. For some reason portage wants to install/keep
18 both. This is where you need to look at the *full* --tree output to
19 see what is trying to pull those packages in.
20
21 -Richard
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage: missing pieces Devon Miller <devon.c.miller@×××××.com>