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From: James Colby <jcolby@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Portage question...
Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2005 14:14:37
Message-Id: c001995e05091407094ac3bd4e@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Portage question... by Yann GARNIER
1 Yann -
2
3 I'm not sure about the downgrade from 3.3.6 to 3.3.5, but I had the same
4 problem with libungif. I fixed it by unmerging giflib (emerge --ask
5 --unmerge media-libs/giflib). Then re-running the update, which actually
6 re-installed giflib for me.
7
8 HTH
9
10 On 9/14/05, Yann GARNIER <garnier-yann@×××××××.fr> wrote:
11 >
12 > Hi all,
13 >
14 > I did an "emerge -vuD world" last week and, among other thing, it updated
15 > GCC from 3.3.5 to 3.3.6 (which seemed to be a good thing..)
16 > Today after an "emerge --sync" I wanted to re-update my system ... and I'm
17 > wondering why portage 'wants' to downgrade my version of GCC from 3.3.6
18 > to 3.3.5... but also wondering why it suddenly wants to install giflib
19 > (which is blocked because of libungif...)
20 > The only thing I can do now to update the system is to add "-gif" in my
21 > make.conf file.
22 >
23 > Is there any other way to solve the giflib/libungif conflict ?
24 >
25 > What makes portage want to install giflib ?
26 >
27 > Can someone tell me what I missed ?
28 >
29 > In advance thank you.
30 >
31 > Yann Garnier
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