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From: Volker Armin Hemmann <volker.armin.hemmann@××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:36:28
Message-Id: 200811122136.24684.volker.armin.hemmann@tu-clausthal.de
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem by Harry Putnam
1 On Mittwoch 12 November 2008, Harry Putnam wrote:
2 > Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@××××××.de> writes:
3 > > From the output you gave, I would suggest that you
4 > >
5 > > 1) update portage to the latest (evantually keyword masked) version. This
6 > > should be able to ignore blocks.
7 > >
8 > > 2) Adjust your VIDEO_CARDS, I don't think you have that many cards
9 > > plugged into your machine.
10 > >
11 > > 3) There seem to be blocks between monolithic and splitted kde/qt
12 > > (kde*-meta) ebuilds. Decide which ones to use and remove the others. qt
13 > > you need to eventually update separatedly, i.e. emerge qt.
14 > >
15 > > 4) update world with the "ignore blocks" option turned on (don't know
16 > > which that is, since I use paludis).
17 > >
18 > > 5) emerge --depclean (-p) to remove the cruft.
19 >
20 > What if I ran the --depclean before updating world. Would that help
21 > me get rid of some junk before updating it with `world'?
22
23 no, it would completly fuck up your system.

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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem Dirk Heinrichs <dirk.heinrichs@××××××.de>