[gentoo-user] Re: Why is apps-misc/gnuit blocked by dev-util/git?

[Grant Edwards]

On 2009-09-08, Grant Edwards <grant.b.edwards@×××××.com> wrote:

>    alpha grante # emerge -av gnuit
>
>    These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
>    Calculating dependencies... done!
>    [ebuild  N    ] app-misc/gnuit-4.9.5  874 kB
>    [blocks B     ] dev-util/git[gtk] ("dev-util/git[gtk]" is blocking app-misc/gnui        t-4.9.5)
>
> I can't figure out what the two have to do with each other.  I
> rarely use git, so I guess I could uninstall it -- but why
> would gnuit be blocked by git?

Both packages install (unrelated) executables named "gitview".

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