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

[Frank Steinmetzger]

Am Freitag, 2. Oktober 2009 schrieb 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

frank@eisen ~ $ eix scrnsaverproto
[I] x11-proto/scrnsaverproto
     Available versions:  1.1.0 [M]~1.2.0

So, scrnsaverproto-1.2.0 is still masked and its ebuild says:
!<x11-libs/libXScrnSaver-1.2

But
frank@eisen ~ $ eix libXScr
[I] x11-libs/libXScrnSaver
     Available versions:  1.1.3 {debug}

My portage, last synced an hour ago, doesn't know _any_ libXScrnSaver which 
scrnsaverproto accepts (assuming no overlays in that area, I only have 
sunrise and kde-testing).

Here, >=scrnsaverproto-1.1 is a dependency of libXScrnSaver-1.1.3. But since 
you want to update scrnsaverproto, you could see what other packages need it. 
Perhaps you can remove it from your sys without complications. On my system 
those are mainly KDE apps plus mplayer through xscreensaver useflag, but 
perhaps you're a Gnome dude or XFCE chap or whatever. :-)
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