On Sun, Jun 7, 2009 at 6:42 AM, Duncan <1i5t5.dun...@cox.net> wrote:

Hi Duncan,


> Note that newer versions of portage have /automatic/ blocker resolution
> in many temporary cases, so depending on how old your portage is (of
> course I'm on ~amd64 and have had 3.5.10 for months now, and don't know
> if the feature is in stable portage yet), if at the --ask prompt, you
> tell it to go ahead, it may well take care of everything for you without
> you having to do anything else. =:^)


in which version was this feature added? I just upgraded portage to 2.1.6.13
and could upgrade to 2.2.x, but that one is hard masked:

http://www.gentoo-portage.com/sys-apps/portage

I will now just give it a try: start to unmerge the blocked packages and
update my system. We'll see :-)

Martin

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