On 08/01/03 Collins Richey wrote: > There's got to be more to this story. I read more and more scenarios > like this all the time. What leads to this crappy situation? What > can others do to avoid it? It's bad enough for xfree (maybe three > hours), but God forbid there should be a package blocked by OpenOffice > (10+ hours) that needs this treatment!
The reason for this is a fixed portage bug that allowed you to install xft together with xfree 4.3.0-r2 (which contains xft), so that the xft libs from xfree got overwritten, similar for other packages. To avoid the recompilation use quickpkg (in /usr/lib/portage/bin) to build binary packages of the blocking and the blocked packages before unmerging anything (and put FEATURES=buildpkg in /etc/make.conf to make this default for future emerge runs). Then instead of re-compiling xfree you can use the binary with "emerge -K xfree". Marius -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
