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From: Jeremy Olexa <olexa@××××××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to do a world update! (Blocked by... )
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 13:40:31
Message-Id: 44648AA6.20705@cs.umn.edu
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to do a world update! (Blocked by... ) by Graham Murray
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4 Graham Murray wrote:
5 > Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> writes:
6 >
7 >> unmerge the blocking packages, coldplug, pam-login and ant-tasks. This
8 >> usually happens because the functionality the package provides is now
9 >> handled by something else that emerge world needs to bring it. This is
10 >> certainly the case with udev now handling coldplug's job.
11 >
12 > Which begs the question that if attempting to rebuild all the packages
13 > in a working system indicates blockers, how did the system get in that
14 > state and why did portage not indicate a blockage when the incompatible
15 > packages were installed or upgraded?
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17 Just because they are conflicting now doesn't mean that there was
18 conflicting packages before. Upgrades do happen, and things do change ;)
19 Every time you sync and get a new ebuild, you are generally getting a
20 new version of the package (assuming there is a new version available).
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