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