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From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@××××××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] blocking package can't be found
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:30:30
Message-Id: 1207812621.7497.13.camel@orpheus
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] blocking package can't be found by Uwe Thiem
1 On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 09:11 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
2 > On Thursday 10 April 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote:
3 >
4 > > I think it just means gtk-doc-am wants a newer gtk-doc, so it's
5 > > blocking the one you have installed. You need to uninstall
6 > > gtk-doc, and then you can install a newer gtk-doc and gtk-doc-am.
7 >
8 > It works. Thanks! But I don't understand why. Emerge clearly said that
9 > gtk-doc-am blocked gtk-doc, not the other way round. Uh, well...
10
11 gtk-doc-am _does_ block gtk-doc. Since you already have gtk-doc
12 installed, gtk-doc-am couldn't go ahead.
13
14 Often with a blocker, you don't have the blockee already installed. ie.
15 blocker-pkg blocks blockee-pkg, and both are required by other
16 ebuilds...
17 --
18 Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>
19
20 The magic of our first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
21 -- Benjamin Disraeli
22
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24 gentoo-user@l.g.o mailing list

Replies

Subject Author
Re: [gentoo-user] blocking package can't be found Uwe Thiem <uwix@××××.na>
Re: [gentoo-user] blocking package can't be found Peter Humphrey <peter@××××××××××××××.org>