Hello, Recently I went to emerge ipodder, a program I've never used before but was interested in trying out. Unfortunately it had a dependency on pythonwx >= version 2.6, which in turn had a dependency on wxGTK >= version 2.6, which in turn wanted me to upgrade my entire Xorg installation... (I'm runnig 6.9). Not particularly wanting to do this, I hacked my way around it. (seems it works just fine with wxGTK/wxpython 2.4, which required no Xorg upgrade).
But later on I decided what the hell, I may as well upgrade X. However, when I attempt emerge xorg-base/xorg-x11, I get a whole list of "Blocked" packages, the gist of it being my installation of x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 is blocking... everything. I was thinking that emerge could handle this type of situation since I'm doing an upgrade - that it would unmerge the old stuff and emerge the new stuff as it went along. Is my only option to manually unmerge my current x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (and I have hundreds of packages I've emerge'd that depend on it, naturally), then emerge x11-base/xorg-x11 to get the new version (7.1 I believe?). Or is there a better way? thanks for any and all advice for this Gentoo fan, -- John Newman Systems Administrator Webii.net -- A WebXess, Inc. Company -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
