On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Walter Dnes wrote: > ...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"?
It usually works this way but not always. There's some history behind this one, the devs want user to have only one motif package installed so blockers have been installed in newer ebuilds to force upgrades and removals. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
