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From: Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to help portage to be become a bit smarter
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 09:06:25
Message-Id: 4A488408.9080603@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] How to help portage to be become a bit smarter by Helmut Jarausch
1 Helmut Jarausch wrote:
2 > Hi,
3 >
4 > I'm using portage-2.2_rc33. And it has become smarter with every new
5 > release. Still, I don't understand why it's sometimes smarter than other
6 > times.
7 >
8 > In most cases now, it's able to handle cases where installed old
9 > packages which depend on, say, libXX-version-1, block emerging
10 > libXX-version-2 by unmerging the old version itself.
11 >
12 > But sometimes, like today when upgrading from various qt-...-4.5.1
13 > to qt-...-4.5.2 packages it produces tons of blockings which it
14 > cannot resolve itself.
15 >
16 > How can I help portage to resolve this blockings itself in a smart way?
17 > (trying to do
18 > emerge --keep-going -j2 -1 --ask --update --newuse --deep @system @world
19 > automatically.
20 > )
21 >
22 > Many thanks for a hint,
23 > Helmut.
24 >
25 >
26
27 Well, I have a question that may help. I went through this upgrade and
28 it did fine. Do you have anything qt in your world file? You shouldn't
29 unless you are a developer that works with qt. That's what I have read
30 anyway.
31
32 Another unrelated question. Why do you have -j2 on the command? If
33 that is the MAKEOPTS setting, why not have it in make.conf? I also put
34 --keep-going in mine to save typing.
35
36 Dale
37
38 :-) :-)