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On Monday 19 February 2007 18:37:32 Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> > Calculating dependencies... done! |
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> > [blocks B ] xfce-extra/xfce4-windowlist (is blocking |
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> > xfce-base/libxfce4util-4.4.0-r1) |
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> Yea, upgrading to XFCE 4.4 is a PITA. |
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> The package structure/organization was changed completely, so |
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> emerge gets confused. It knows it can't install libxfce4util |
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> because a bunch of older packages that were combined into |
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> libxfce4util are still installed. For whatever reason, emerge |
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> doesn't know enough to remove the old packages. |
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It's not a matter of emerge being confused or not knowing enough to remove the |
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old packages. It's a matter of emerge not being permitted to remove any |
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packages that temporarily break things without the user knowing about and |
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permitting it first. So instead it aborts while informing the user about the |
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block and allowing the user to make a decision. |
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In this particular case it's not even about anything needing to be removed (at |
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least not anymore). It's simply that when accepting ~arch keywords for xfce4 |
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you need to accept ~arch keywords for xfce4-extras too for them to be |
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compatible. |
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Bo Andresen |
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