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From: Helmut Jarausch <jarausch@××××××××××××××××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] How to help portage to be become a bit smarter
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 08:22:02
Message-Id: tkrat.5141400459602183@igpm.rwth-aachen.de
1 Hi,
2
3 I'm using portage-2.2_rc33. And it has become smarter with every new
4 release. Still, I don't understand why it's sometimes smarter than other
5 times.
6
7 In most cases now, it's able to handle cases where installed old
8 packages which depend on, say, libXX-version-1, block emerging
9 libXX-version-2 by unmerging the old version itself.
10
11 But sometimes, like today when upgrading from various qt-...-4.5.1
12 to qt-...-4.5.2 packages it produces tons of blockings which it
13 cannot resolve itself.
14
15 How can I help portage to resolve this blockings itself in a smart way?
16 (trying to do
17 emerge --keep-going -j2 -1 --ask --update --newuse --deep @system @world
18 automatically.
19 )
20
21 Many thanks for a hint,
22 Helmut.
23
24 --
25 Helmut Jarausch
26
27 Lehrstuhl fuer Numerische Mathematik
28 RWTH - Aachen University
29 D 52056 Aachen, Germany

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