[gentoo-user] Re: Blockage problem

[Harm Geerts]

On Thursday 26 October 2006 14:11, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote:
> I tried to install Crossover-Office-Pro-Bin and i got the following
> blockage message:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [blocks B     ] <=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking
> x11-libs/libXau-1.0.2, x11-libs/libXext-1.0.2, x11-libs/xtrans-1.0.2,
> x11-proto/xproto-7.0.8, x11-proto/inputproto-1.3.2,
> x11-proto/xextproto-7.0.2, x11-libs/libXdmcp-1.0.2,
> x11-libs/libXt-1.0.3, x11-proto/randrproto-1.1.2,
> x11-libs/libXrender-0.9.2, x11-proto/renderproto-0.9.2,
> x11-proto/bigreqsproto-1.0.2, x11-libs/libXxf86dga-1.0.1,
> x11-libs/libICE-1.0.2, x11-libs/libSM-1.0.2, x11-libs/libX11-1.0.3,
> x11-libs/libXxf86vm-1.0.1, x11-proto/xf86vidmodeproto-2.2.2,
> x11-proto/xcmiscproto-1.1.2, x11-proto/xf86bigfontproto-1.1.2,
> x11-proto/kbproto-1.0.3, x11-proto/xf86dgaproto-2.0.2,
> x11-misc/util-macros-1.1.1, x11-libs/libXi-1.0.1-r1,
> x11-libs/libXrandr-1.1.2, x11-libs/libXmu-1.0.2)
>
> I had similar errors trying to emerge other packages, does this mean
> that my modular xorg installation is conflicting with everything, or is
> it all the way around and my monolithic xorg is causing trouble (i am
> still a novice interpreting portage error messages), or maybe xorg has
> not anything to do with it and i am missing something?
>
> Does anyone know what i should do or had a similiar problem?

Did you follow the upgrade guide[1] when switching to modular X ?
It is designed to solve dependency issues when switching, and it seems you are 
troubled by such an issue.

If you haven't followed the guide I suggest you do it now.
If you have, you should retrace your steps cause you might have skipped one.

[1] http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml
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