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From: Graham Murray <graham@×××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to do a world update! (Blocked by... )
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 09:02:05
Message-Id: 8764kbaaot.fsf@newton.gmurray.org.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to do a world update! (Blocked by... ) by Neil Bothwick
1 Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> writes:
2
3 > unmerge the blocking packages, coldplug, pam-login and ant-tasks. This
4 > usually happens because the functionality the package provides is now
5 > handled by something else that emerge world needs to bring it. This is
6 > certainly the case with udev now handling coldplug's job.
7
8 Which begs the question that if attempting to rebuild all the packages
9 in a working system indicates blockers, how did the system get in that
10 state and why did portage not indicate a blockage when the incompatible
11 packages were installed or upgraded?
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Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to do a world update! (Blocked by... ) Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to do a world update! (Blocked by... ) Jeremy Olexa <olexa@××××××.edu>