Re: [gentoo-user] Re: upgrading 1-year old system

[Alan McKinnon]

On 30/01/2017 22:57, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
> On 01/30/2017 01:41 PM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2017-01-30, thelma@×××××××××××.com <thelma@×××××××××××.com> wrote:
>>> On 01/29/2017 01:56 PM, thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote:
>>>> I haven't updated my system for over a year (1year and 3-months).
>>>> I was trying to upgrade my firefox-bin and I'm already running into problems.
>>>>
>>> [snip]
>>>
>>> OK, I have just few blockers.  What to do with them?
>>> I have grup-0.97-r16 installed in slot: "0"
>>>
>>>
>>> [blocks B     ] sys-boot/grub:2[-multislot] ("sys-boot/grub:2[-multislot]" is blocking sys-boot/grub-0.97-r16)
>>> [blocks B     ] sys-boot/grub:0 ("sys-boot/grub:0" is blocking sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta3-r1)
>>
>> You probably need to set the 'multislot' use flag for grub.
>
> I don't use grub-2.
> I think I will need to install grub-0.97-r16
> and reinstall it gain.

either mask grub:2 or explicitly enable grub:0 only. Edit your world
file to have this for grub:
sys-boot/grub:0

> Do I need to enable 'multislot' use flag for grub?

You need to learn to look things up first.

grub:0 doesn't have a multislot USE flag, only grub:0 does

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Alan McKinnon
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