On Fri, 2005-10-14 at 19:09 -0400, C. Beamer wrote: > Hi, > > I've had Gentoo installed on my main computer for about a month now and > want to update world. > > When I did 'emerge --pretend --update --deep world' I got told that a > package that I had installed was blocking another package. I want to > update but omit the blocked package from the update, which incidentally > is not installed on my system. > > I looked in the Gentoo documentation which told me that I had 2 options > - to omit the blocked package or remove the blocked package. Since the > blocked package is not installed on my system, my only option is to > omit, but I couldn't find how to omit it in the documentation. Nor, > could I figure out from the man page how to do it. > > So what do I use to omit a package from being updated when I want to run > 'emerge --update --deep world' > > Regards, > > Colleen Hi, Think it mostly depends on which is the package in question. Seen three types of package blocking: 1.a new version blocking the old version of the same package - remove it then add again; 2.A new package wants to install but there is another package serving the same role, e.g mail-server: qmail, postfix, exim all provide - virtual/mta (IIRC), so only one could get installed; 3.Think it's your case. Some other package (which is installed) has a *new* dependency on another one (not installed), which provides the same 'virtual/...' as third one (installed). This could happen when using -D/--deep flag - try without it to check and use -t/-tree option to see the deps. But it depends on the package in question & friends. HTH.Rumen
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