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On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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> I've allowed my desktop OS to become somewhat outdated. And I haven't |
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> followed all the recent changes to gentoo, so of course I am a little |
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> baffled by what appears to a real mess of overlapping dependencies or |
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> something causing 16 different blocking problems. |
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> The output of emerge -vuDNp shows a message saying I might be able |
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> solve some of the problem with masking but that appears to be only one |
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> small part of the blocking. |
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> I've included below some long output from: |
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> emerge -vuDNpt world (to show the interdependence's) |
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Take a look at |
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emerge -pvDuN system |
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first. Get that up to date. Dan's instructions should get you past |
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some of this. For now make ##sure## you do an emerge -f to fetch files |
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you might need. (Or use another local machine to get copies from if |
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you break something. |
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You'll get through it but it might be a bit of work. |
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good luck, |
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Mark |
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