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From: "b.n." <brullonulla@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] utempter vs libutempter
Date: Sat, 03 Jun 2006 14:15:02
Message-Id: 4481B87C.7010809@gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] utempter vs libutempter by Allan Gottlieb
1 I'm pretty confused.
2
3 >>>
4 >>>1. did a quickpge utempter (for safety)
5 >>>
6 >>>2. unmerged utempter
7 >>>
8 >>>3. emerged libutempter
9 >>>
10 >>>4. re-emerged utempter (from the portage tree not /usr/portage/packages)
11
12
13 Leave aside the fact it didn't work in this case...Why do you usually
14 try the (4) step? If two packages conflict, how can you re-install them
15 both?
16
17 >>There was a blog entry on planet gentoo recently about this:
18 >>
19 >>http://planet.gentoo.org/developers/seemant/2006/06/02/utemptations_with_xterm
20 >>
21 >>It looks like you have to unmerge utempter and then emerge libutempter and
22 >>rebuild xterm.
23
24 This just makes sense, but so...
25
26 > So this utmpter/libutmpter appears to be a special case where the
27 > normal
28 >
29 > unmerge A
30 > merge B
31 > merge A
32 >
33 > is wrong.
34
35 how it is normal?
36
37 m.
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