Re: [gentoo-dev] xorg-x11-7 emerge blocks

[Ferris McCormick <fmccor@gentoo.org>]

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On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Dan Armak wrote:

> On Monday 24 October 2005 19:24, Ferris McCormick wrote:
>> On Mon, 2005-10-24 at 18:48 +0200, Dan Armak wrote:
>>> Don't post such questions here. Go to the gentoo-user mailing list, the
>>> forums, or irc. This list is for discussion of Gentoo development.
>>
>> Actually, this is a discussion of X-modular, and up to now, all
>> X-modular posts have come here (it is very much a -dev issue; the
>> X-modular suite is masked, unless something has changed quite recently.)
>
> It was a matter of misunderstanding emerge output (block by <xorg-x11-7, and
> the OP apparently missed the <). Thus nothing to do with the modular X. It
> was also crossposted to gentoo-user. IMHO mostly any question about using
> portage correctly, which is suitable to gentoo-user, is not suitable to
> gentoo-dev.
>
Well, maybe so.  However that missing '<' is kind of important, and when 
playing with X-modular, the portage output really looks like the modular 
packages are blocking the non-existent xorg-x11-7.  It's not a "matter of 
using portage correctly" because portage is misreporting the (phantom) 
problem.

As I recall, it looks like this (for example):
x11-base/xorg-server-xxx [B x11-base/xorg-x11-7]
which without that little '<' is, shall we say, wrong.  Since (so far as I 
know) it arises only in the X-modular context, this is the right place for 
the question.  (With '<' it's true but irrelevant, but portage is being 
misled into believing xorg-x11 is required.  R. Hill addressed that issue in
another post.)

Or maybe it arises elsewhere too?

> Maybe I was too harsh in the tone of my reply. If so I 
apologize.
>> -- 
> Dan Armak
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Regards,
Ferris

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Ferris McCormick (P44646, MI) <fmccor@gentoo.org>
Developer, Gentoo Linux (sparc, devrel)
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