On Mittwoch, 2. April 2008, Walter Dnes wrote: > On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 05:48:22AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote > > > emerge unmerge openmotif > > emerge openmotif > > Thanks; it worked. Actually, I unmerged openmotif, and then went > right to the update of world. I misread the diagnostic message... > > "<=x11-libs/openmotif-2.3.0 (is blocking x11-libs/openmotif-2.3.0-r1)" > > ...as saying that some other program required a version of openmotif > which was <= 2.3.0. I figure that an older version of program x should > not be considered as a "block" to a newer version of program x. Isn't > that the whole point of "--update"?
well, maybe it was done to make sure that there is a proper cleanup? You have to ask the devs why they did it that way ;) -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
