[gentoo-user] Portage+gentoolkit blockage

[Walter Dnes]

I went 41 days without emerging (yeah, I know).  Anyhow, emerge first
wants me to update portage, but I run into problems.  Can I safely
unmerge gentoolkit and re-emerge it afterwards?

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[i660][root][~] emerge --oneshot portage
Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild     U  ] sys-apps/portage-2.3.76 [2.3.69]
[blocks B      ] <app-portage/gentoolkit-0.4.6 ("<app-portage/gentoolkit-0.4.6" is blocking sys-apps/portage-2.3.76)

 * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
 * installed at the same time on the same system.

  (app-portage/gentoolkit-0.4.5:0/0::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
    app-portage/gentoolkit required by @selected

  (sys-apps/portage-2.3.76:0/0::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge) pulled in by
    sys-apps/portage required by (app-admin/perl-cleaner-2.27:0/0::gentoo, installed)
    portage
    sys-apps/portage[python_targets_pypy(-)?,python_targets_python2_7(-)?,python_targets_python3_5(-)?,python_targets_python3_6(-)?,-python_single_target_pypy(-),-python_single_target_python2_7(-),-python_single_target_python3_5(-),-python_single_target_python3_6(-)] (sys-apps/portage[python_targets_python2_7(-),python_targets_python3_6(-),-python_single_target_pypy(-),-python_single_target_python2_7(-),-python_single_target_python3_5(-),-python_single_target_python3_6(-)]) required by (app-portage/layman-2.4.2-r1:0/0::gentoo, installed)
    sys-apps/portage required by (virtual/package-manager-1:0/0::gentoo, installed)
    sys-apps/portage[python_targets_pypy(-)?,python_targets_python2_7(-)?,python_targets_python3_5(-)?,python_targets_python3_6(-)?,python_targets_python3_7(-)?,-python_single_target_pypy(-),-python_single_target_python2_7(-),-python_single_target_python3_5(-),-python_single_target_python3_6(-),-python_single_target_python3_7(-)] (sys-apps/portage[python_targets_python2_7(-),python_targets_python3_6(-),-python_single_target_pypy(-),-python_single_target_python2_7(-),-python_single_target_python3_5(-),-python_single_target_python3_6(-),-python_single_target_python3_7(-)]) required by (app-portage/gentoolkit-0.4.5:0/0::gentoo, installed)


For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the following
section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant):

https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Working/Portage#Blocked_packages
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Walter Dnes <waltdnes@××××××××.org>
I don't run "desktop environments"; I run useful applications