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From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Help with blocking, please: vte is blocking gnome-pty-helper
Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 12:10:18
Message-Id: 2441919.uoYDZSbT18@nazgul
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Help with blocking, please: vte is blocking gnome-pty-helper by Alan Mackenzie
1 On Friday 01 July 2011 10:39:18 Alan Mackenzie did opine thusly:
2 > Hi, Gentoo!
3 >
4 > After emerge-synching, an emerge -puND gives, in part:
5 >
6 > [ebuild N ] x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.28.1
7 > [ebuild U ] x11-libs/vte-0.28.1-r200 [0.26.2]
8 > USE="introspection*" [blocks b ] <x11-libs/vte-0.27.90
9 > ("<x11-libs/vte-0.27.90" is blocking
10 > x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.28.1)
11 >
12 > . Am I right in thinking that the block means "your vte version is
13 > too old for gnome-pty-helper"?
14
15 Yes.
16
17
18 > It seems that emerge is using the old vte version rather than the
19 > one it's about to install. In this case, can I just emerge vte "by
20 > hand" first?
21
22 unmerge vte and re-run the original emerge, prevents accidental
23 clutter of world and saves time
24
25 or better:
26
27 unmask portage and install 2.2_some_huge_number_alpha,
28 ignore what your instincts tell you about rc and alpha - a project
29 that hit 100 -rc versions and is now on 41 alphas is probably abusing
30 the terms :-)
31
32 Recent portage just knows how to deal with these blockers and just
33 does what it needs to do to make it work.
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36 --
37 alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com