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From: "Zoltán Kócsi" <zoltan@××××××××××.au>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Blocked packages
Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 09:44:23
Message-Id: 20140522194051.74e9bc7d@tade.bendor.com.au
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Blocked packages by Neil Bothwick
1 On Thu, 22 May 2014 10:30:39 +0100
2 Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote:
3
4 > doc flag is at fault here. You have changed other flags, such as
5 > ipv6, so the advice is to make such sweeping USE flag changes one at
6 > a time. This often avoids the problem and otherwise makes it easier
7 > to see.
8
9 Point taken, thanks.
10
11 > the output you posted is hard to read because your mailer wrapped it
12 > but it may be that updating sysvinit manually first will clear it.
13 >
14 > emerge -1a sysvinit
15
16 It did it indeed, so the immediate problem is solved, thanks a lot for
17 that.
18
19 However, I'd be obliged if you could tell me what was wrong and why an
20 update cleared it? I genuinely don't understand what goes on and I'd be
21 keen to learn about how Gentoo manages dependencies.
22
23 Thanks,
24
25 Zoltan

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Re: [gentoo-user] Blocked packages Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>