[gentoo-user] And I thought I understood blocks...

[Nikos Chantziaras]

Er, what the heck is this one:

emerge -av1 x11-libs/libXScrnSaver

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild  N    ] x11-proto/scrnsaverproto-1.2.0  49 kB
[ebuild  N    ] x11-libs/libXScrnSaver-1.1.3  USE="-debug" 0 kB
[blocks B     ] <x11-libs/libXScrnSaver-1.2 
("<x11-libs/libXScrnSaver-1.2" is blocking x11-proto/scrnsaverproto-1.2.0)

Total: 2 packages (2 new), Size of downloads: 49 kB
Conflict: 1 block (1 unsatisfied)

  * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
  * installed at the same time on the same system.

   ('ebuild', '/', 'x11-libs/libXScrnSaver-1.1.3', 'merge') pulled in by
     x11-libs/libXScrnSaver