Re: [gentoo-user] blocking packages when emerge gnome-light

[Tim]

paul wrote:
> I am sure that this is all explained somewhere but I cannot find it
> easily.
>
> When running "emerge -av gnome-light" I get :
> [blocks B     ] <gnome-base/control-center-2.22 (is blocking
> gnome-base/gnome-settings-daemon-2.22.1)
> [blocks B     ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am (is blocking
> dev-util/gtk-doc-1.8-r2)
>
>
> I am not asking anyone to wade through my make.conf and various portage
> files but if someone who knows the system obviously better than I do
> could please point me in the direction of how to fix this issue I would
> be grateful.
>
> My requirements are "install gnome-light 2.22.0 or later".
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Paul
Paul,

What this means is that you have some software installed on your system
already that prevents you from getting gnome-light. In this case, it
looks like you have the two packages gtk-doc-am and control-center,
which are preventing gnome-settings daemon and gtk-doc, respectively,
from being installed.

The usual way of fixing this problem is to do an emerge -avC on the
packages that are blocking to remove them and allow your gnome-light
installation to proceed. However, remember that some other packages
currently installed on your system may depend on these packages, so you
may not want to go into this blindly. I'm not an expert on the setup of
gnome dependencies, so I can't recommend this course of action
unreservedly; it's just a thought.

In the future, you'll get better (and likely more courteous) responses
if you start your own thread, rather than taking over someone else's.
You would also do well to look through the Gentoo Handbook - there's a
wonderful section at

http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=1

that talks at length about blocked packages and what to do to resolve
your issues.

-Tim
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