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From: Alan Mackenzie <acm@×××.de>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Help with blocking, please: vte is blocking gnome-pty-helper
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2011 10:39:18
Message-Id: 20110702103531.GA30273@acm.acm
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Help with blocking, please: vte is blocking gnome-pty-helper by Neil Bothwick
1 Hi, Neil.
2
3 On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 01:17:01PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
4 > On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 10:39:18 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
5
6 > > After emerge-synching, an emerge -puND gives, in part:
7
8 > > [ebuild N ] x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.28.1
9 > > [ebuild U ] x11-libs/vte-0.28.1-r200 [0.26.2]
10 > > USE="introspection*" [blocks b ] <x11-libs/vte-0.27.90
11 > > ("<x11-libs/vte-0.27.90" is blocking x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.28.1)
12
13 > > . Am I right in thinking that the block means "your vte version is too
14 > > old for gnome-pty-helper"?
15
16 > Yes, but the lower case b means that portage will resolve the block for
17 > you. The only reason it has stopped after reporting the block is that
18 > you used -p.
19
20 > Only blocks marked with a B require manual intervention.
21
22 Ah, thanks! I just did an "emerge -uND world" and it worked. My Gnome
23 still works too, thankfully. ;-)
24
25 Thanks to everybody else who answered, too.
26
27 --
28 Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).