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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Cc: Michael Sullivan <msulli1355@×××××.com>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] sys-power/powermgmt-base blocks sys-power/pm-utils, but it's not installed yet
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:19:16
Message-Id: 201001061617.21274.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] sys-power/powermgmt-base blocks sys-power/pm-utils, but it's not installed yet by Michael Sullivan
1 On Wednesday 06 January 2010 15:49:05 Michael Sullivan wrote:
2 > I was hoping that this was a dev boo-boo and would work itself out in
3 > time, but it's been several days and it hasn't, so the problem must be
4 > on my end. See the following listing:
5 >
6 > Calculating dependencies ...... . ....... done!
7 > [ebuild N ] sys-power/powermgmt-base-1.22
8 > [ebuild U ] media-libs/libmikmod-3.2.0_beta2-r1 [3.1.11-r5]
9 > [ebuild N ] sys-apps/apmd-3.2.2_p5 USE="X nls"
10 > [ebuild N ] sys-power/pm-utils-1.2.5 USE="alsa -debug
11 > -networkmanager -ntp" VIDEO_CARDS="-intel -radeon"
12 > [blocks B ] sys-power/powermgmt-base ("sys-power/powermgmt-base" is
13 > blocking sys-power/pm-utils-1.2.5)
14 >
15 > * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
16 > * installed at the same time on the same system.
17 >
18 > ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-power/powermgmt-base-1.22', 'merge') pulled in by
19 >
20 > >=sys-power/powermgmt-base-1.22 required by ('ebuild', '/',
21 >
22 > 'sys-apps/apmd-3.2.2_p5', 'merge')
23 >
24 > ('ebuild', '/', 'sys-power/pm-utils-1.2.5', 'merge') pulled in by
25 > sys-power/pm-utils required by ('installed', '/',
26 > 'kde-base/powerdevil-4.3.3', 'nomerge')
27 >
28 > As you can see powermgmt-base is on the emerge list, as is pm-utils. I
29 > installed kde-meta because my mother-in-law is visiting and she likes
30 > kpatience and it didn't work anymore with kde-3.5. Now, how do I
31 > resolve this block?
32 >
33
34 You cannot have both those packages at the same time.
35
36 From the pm-utils ebuild:
37
38 $ cat pm-utils/pm-utils-1.2.5.ebuild
39
40 [snip]
41
42 RDEPEND=">=sys-apps/hal-0.5.10
43 >=sys-apps/dbus-1.0.0
44 !sys-power/powermgmt-base
45
46 You need to get rid of powermgmt-base somehow or not use pm-utils. The depends
47 list for pm-utils is:
48
49 $ equery depends pm-utils
50 * Searching for pm-utils ...
51 kde-base/powerdevil-4.3.4 (pm-utils ? sys-power/pm-utils)
52 net-misc/wicd-1.6.2.2 (pm-utils ? >=sys-power/pm-utils-1.1.1)
53 sys-apps/hal-0.5.14 (laptop ? >=sys-power/pm-utils-0.99.3)
54 alan@nazgul ~/downloads/iso/gentoo $ eix powermgmt-base
55
56 So I assume you have KDE4 installed.
57
58 What package do you have that wants powermgmt-base? (emerge -t helps find
59 this)
60
61
62 --
63 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com