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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] gnome 2.16 block by non-installed blocker
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2006 00:23:09
Message-Id: yu9d56qdl3q.fsf@nyu.edu
1 My normal
2 emerge --tree --ask --verbose --newuse --update --deep world
3 showed that gnome 2.16 is now stable. The output starts with
4
5 These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
6
7 Calculating world dependencies... done!
8 [blocks B ] <dev-python/pygtk-2.9 (is blocking dev-python/pygobject-2.12.3)
9
10 I know that when A blocks B, you emerge --unmerge A (or do without B).
11
12 But it appears that the version of A mentioned is not installed,
13 indeed it seems to not be in portage
14
15 ajglap gottlieb # emerge --unmerge --ask dev-python/pygtk-2.9
16
17 >>> These are the packages that would be unmerged:
18
19 --- Couldn't find 'dev-python/pygtk-2.9' to unmerge.
20
21 >>> No packages selected for removal by unmerge.
22
23 ajglap gottlieb # eix pygtk
24 * dev-python/pygtk
25 Available versions: [M]0.6.11:1.2 [M]0.6.11-r1:1.2 2.6.1:2 ~2.6.2:2 2.8.2:2 ~2.8.4:2 2.8.6:2 ~2.10.1:2 *2.10.1-r1:2 2.10.3:2
26 Installed: 2.8.6
27
28 Should I be unmerging pygtk-2.8.6 and am I wrong to expect that the
29 specific version mention in the block msg will be installed on my
30 system?
31
32 thanks in advance,
33 allan
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Re: [gentoo-user] gnome 2.16 block by non-installed blocker "Thomas Rösner" <Thomas.Roesner@××××××××××××××.de>