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From: Janne Johansson <jpjohans@×××××××××××.fi>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage has blocking packages that are not installed
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 12:07:40
Message-Id: 1122552126.21495.9.camel@sd015
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] portage has blocking packages that are not installed by Alexander Meyer
1 On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 13:45 +0200, Alexander Meyer wrote:
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5 > Janne Johansson wrote:
6 > > On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 13:27 +0200, Alexander Meyer wrote:
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8 > >
9 > >>[blocks B ] <www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0-r3 (is blocking
10 > >>media-libs/freetype-2.1.9-r1)
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12 > >
13 > > What it says is that mozilla-firefox with a version number _smaller_
14 > > than 1.0-r3 is blocking freetype.
15 >
16 > oh! but why doesn't it say so?
17
18 I think it's trying to with the little '<' character before the name of
19 the blocking software. It's really easy to miss though.
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