Re: [gentoo-user] Blocked packages

[Amankwah]

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 07:10:40PM +1000, Zoltán Kócsi wrote:
> On Thu, 22 May 2014 10:23:27 +0200
> "J. Roeleveld" <joost@××××××××.org> wrote:
>
> > > I want to install some packages with docs but emerge tells me that
> > > it can't do that. Quite interestingly it complains about blocked
> > > packages.
> > > [...]
> >
> > Can you send the actual emerge-output you are seeing along with the
> > full emerge-command you are issuing?
>
> No problem. Background:
>
> Empty machine, Gentoo installed from CD and stage3 tarball. It will be
> a server, so the 'hardened' profile was selected from the offered
> choices. A few packages (mailserver, bind, webserver, iptables etc) got
> installed. I want their documentation, so I added "doc" to their
> package specific USE flags in package.use.
>
> The USE in make.conf is
>
> USE="berkdb crypt ssl -ipv6"
>
> and in package.use contains postfix, iptables, iproute2 and a few
> other similar packages, with the 'doc' flag and whatever else they
> needed for their actual function (e.g. postfix gets 'sasl' and 'mbox').
>
> Then, the command and the response:
> -----------------------
> ~ # emerge --pretend --newuse @world
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild  N     ] sys-apps/paxctl-0.7-r2
> [ebuild   R    ] net-misc/iputils-20121221  USE="-ipv6*"
> [ebuild   R    ] sys-process/psmisc-22.20  USE="-ipv6*"
> [ebuild   R    ] sys-devel/gcc-4.7.3-r1  USE="hardened* -fortran*"
> [ebuild   R    ] app-arch/gzip-1.5  USE="pic*"
> [ebuild   R    ] sys-apps/busybox-1.21.0  USE="-ipv6*"
> [ebuild  N     ] dev-python/pypax-0.8.4  USE="ptpax xtpax"
> PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7 python3_3 (-pypy) (-python2_6)
> -python3_2" [ebuild  N     ] sys-apps/elfix-0.8.4  USE="ptpax
> xtpax" [ebuild   R    ] dev-tcltk/expect-5.44.1.15  USE="doc*" [ebuild
> NS    ] sys-boot/grub-2.00_p5107-r2 [0.97-r12] USE="multislot nls
> -custom-cflags -debug -device-mapper -doc -efiemu (-libzfs) -mount -sdl
> -static {-test} -truetype" GRUB_PLATFORMS="-coreboot -efi-32 -efi-64
> -emu -ieee1275 -multiboot -pc -qemu -qemu-mips -yeeloong" [ebuild
> U  ] sys-apps/util-linux-2.24.1-r2 [2.22.2] USE="pam%*
> -bash-completion% -caps% -cytune% -fdformat% -python% -tty-helpers%"
> PYTHON_SINGLE_TARGET="python2_7%* -python3_2% -python3_3% (-python3_4)"
> PYTHON_TARGETS="python2_7%* python3_3%* -python3_2%
> (-python3_4)" [ebuild   R    ] net-misc/rsync-3.0.9-r3
> USE="-ipv6*" [ebuild   R    ] net-misc/wget-1.14
> USE="-ipv6*" [ebuild   R    ] net-libs/gnutls-2.12.23-r4
> USE="-bindist*" [ebuild   R    ] app-admin/syslog-ng-3.4.7
> USE="-ipv6*" [ebuild   R    ] net-misc/dhcpcd-6.2.0-r1
> USE="-ipv6*" [blocks B      ] <sys-apps/sysvinit-2.88-r7
> ("<sys-apps/sysvinit-2.88-r7" is blocking
> sys-apps/util-linux-2.24.1-r2) [blocks B      ]
> >=sys-apps/util-linux-2.23 (">=sys-apps/util-linux-2.23" is blocking
> >sys-apps/sysvinit-2.88-r4)
>
>  * Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
>  * installed at the same time on the same system.
>
>   (sys-apps/sysvinit-2.88-r4::gentoo, installed) pulled in by
>     >=sys-apps/sysvinit-2.86-r6 required by
>   (sys-apps/openrc-0.12.4::gentoo, installed)
>
>   (sys-apps/util-linux-2.24.1-r2::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for merge)
>   pulled in by >=sys-apps/util-linux-2.20 required by
>   (sys-fs/udev-208::gentoo, installed) >=sys-apps/util-linux-2.16
>   required by (sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.42.7::gentoo, installed)
>   >=sys-apps/util-linux-2.16 required by (x11-libs/libSM-1.2.2::gentoo,
>   installed) sys-apps/util-linux required by @system
>
>
> For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the
> following section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is
> irrelevant):
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked
>
>
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> -------------------
>
> It is entirely possible that I'm, being a complete newbie on Gentoo
> made something stupid thing, so I'm not blaming the system, just looking
> for an explanation and possibly a solution.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Zoltan
>

*DO NOT* add the USE flag "doc" into you /etc/make.conf, That may cause
many unexpected conflict. Somebody had told me this several years
before.

If you need doc for any package, just add this flag int file
/etc/portage/package.use for the certain package.