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I think it's bidirections. Becourse I got 'A blocks B' one, when both of |
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them weren't installed.(I was installing C,and I don't know why C |
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depends on both A and B). |
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On 14:55 Thu 10 Apr , Uwe Thiem wrote: |
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> On Thursday 10 April 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: |
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> > On Thursday 10 April 2008, 14:08, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > > In any event, when portage says "A blocks B" your options and |
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> > > always only: |
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> > > |
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> > > - unmerge B and optionally remerge or upgrade it later |
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> > > - do not use A |
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> > I have always resolved "A blocks B" problems by unmerging A. After |
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> > that, portage was not complaining anymore, and B emerged fine. |
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> > |
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> > Or at least, that's what I think I did :-) |
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> That was what I did as well in the past. Didn't work this time because |
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> I couldn't unmerge A because it apparently wasn't installed yet. |
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> Obviously Alan was right because all went well after I unmerged B. The |
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> problem remains that I am pretty sure I will draw the same conclusion |
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> next time this happens. Well, I will read Alans explanation another |
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> couple of times. Maybe enlightenment will eventual strike me. ;-) |
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> Uwe |
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