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From: Devon Miller <devon.c.miller@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage: missing pieces
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:23:04
Message-Id: c52221f0607121002m2393c399t691fcd8ab085599d@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage: missing pieces by Richard Fish
1 > >=sys-apps/shadow-4.0.14-r2 (is blocking sys-apps/pam-login-4.0.14)
2 The trick here is to unmerge pam-login, then merge shadow with USE="pam".
3 The functionality of pam-login has been folded into shadow, so using
4 pam-login is deprecated.
5
6 dcm
7
8 On 7/6/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org> wrote:
9 >
10 > On 7/6/06, Molle Bestefich <molle.bestefich@×××××.com> wrote:
11 > >
12 > > ... snip ...
13 > >
14 > > Any other suggestions?
15 >
16 > Dont "snip". The relevant part comes *after* the "blocks" lines.
17 >
18 > Also, you are mis-interpreting the "blocks" lines. The correct
19 > reading of "X (is blocking Y)" is that you have (or should have) X
20 > installed, and now portage wants to install Y instead. Usually this
21 > is because Y supercedes the functionality that used to be provided by
22 > X, and in almost all cases, the right thing to do is to unmerge X and
23 > merge Y.
24 >
25 > The exceptions on your system are pam-login/shadow, and
26 > seamonkey/mozilla. For some reason portage wants to install/keep
27 > both. This is where you need to look at the *full* --tree output to
28 > see what is trying to pull those packages in.
29 >
30 > -Richard
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33 >
34 >