On Thursday 10 April 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > On Thursday 10 April 2008, 14:08, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > In any event, when portage says "A blocks B" your options and > > always only: > > > > - unmerge B and optionally remerge or upgrade it later > > - do not use A > > I have always resolved "A blocks B" problems by unmerging A. After > that, portage was not complaining anymore, and B emerged fine. > > Or at least, that's what I think I did :-)
That was what I did as well in the past. Didn't work this time because I couldn't unmerge A because it apparently wasn't installed yet. Obviously Alan was right because all went well after I unmerged B. The problem remains that I am pretty sure I will draw the same conclusion next time this happens. Well, I will read Alans explanation another couple of times. Maybe enlightenment will eventual strike me. ;-) Uwe -- Informal Linux Group Namibia: http://www.linux.org.na/ SysEx (Pty) Ltd.: http://www.SysEx.com.na/ -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
