On Thursday 10 April 2008, 09:57, Uwe Thiem wrote:

> > Often with a blocker, you don't have the blockee already installed.
> >  ie. blocker-pkg blocks blockee-pkg, and both are required by other
> > ebuilds...
>
> I must be extraordinarily dense these days. I don't get it. How can a
> non-installed package block an installed one? Somehow this doesn't
> want to penetrate my skull. :-(

As I read it, the /blocker/ must be installed, whereas the /blockee/ not.
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