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From: Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <please.no.spam.here@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerging gnome - blocked package
Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 13:39:01
Message-Id: 38af3d670811040538y53bd92b7raafda45bc95fdac7@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] emerging gnome - blocked package by "András Csányi"
1 > I have a little problem with gnome.
2 > I wanted to install gnome, but I got this error message:
3 >
4 > [blocks B ] <gnome-base/gail-1000 (is blocking x11-libs/gtk+-2.14.4)
5 >
6 > I thought isn't a problem because I'm using Gentoo for 3 years. I
7 > uninstall gail and gtk+ and emerge is working fine... But after this
8 > the blockign situation is same.
9 > Okay, nothing problem I thought, I install the gail and after I can
10 > install gtk+ BUT - and this is a really big BUT - gail depending of
11 > gtk+.
12 >
13 > softwarealchemy sayusi # emerge -avt gail
14 >
15 > These are the packages that would be merged, in reverse order:
16 >
17 > Calculating dependencies... done!
18 > [ebuild N ] gnome-base/gail-1.22.3 USE="-debug -doc" 659 kB
19 > [ebuild N ] x11-libs/gtk+-2.14.4 USE="X jpeg jpeg2k tiff
20 > vim-syntax -cups -debug -doc -xinerama" 0 kB
21 > [blocks B ] <gnome-base/gail-1000 (is blocking x11-libs/gtk+-2.14.4)
22 >
23 > Total: 2 packages (2 new, 1 block), Size of downloads: 659 kB
24 >
25 > After this I tried to install gtk+ first and gail second, but blocking
26 > situation is same.
27
28 Maybe you don't have to install gail at all? What depends on gail? I
29 heard that recent versions of gtk+ integrate gail functionality. So
30 for each package that depends on gail, you could see if a more recent
31 version of that package does not have the gail dependency.
32
33 --
34 Software is like sex: it is better when it is free - Linus Torvalds

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerging gnome - blocked package "András Csányi" <sayusi.ando@×××××.com>