From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] blocking package can't be found
Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:00:21 +0930 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1207812621.7497.13.camel@orpheus> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200804100811.00798.uwix@iway.na>
On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 09:11 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> On Thursday 10 April 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote:
>
> > I think it just means gtk-doc-am wants a newer gtk-doc, so it's
> > blocking the one you have installed. You need to uninstall
> > gtk-doc, and then you can install a newer gtk-doc and gtk-doc-am.
>
> It works. Thanks! But I don't understand why. Emerge clearly said that
> gtk-doc-am blocked gtk-doc, not the other way round. Uh, well...
gtk-doc-am _does_ block gtk-doc. Since you already have gtk-doc
installed, gtk-doc-am couldn't go ahead.
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...
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Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-04-09 16:40 [gentoo-user] blocking package can't be found Uwe Thiem
2008-04-09 17:28 ` Dale
2008-04-09 17:51 ` Uwe Thiem
2008-04-10 5:25 ` Iain Buchanan
2008-04-10 7:04 ` tecnic5
2008-04-10 7:11 ` Uwe Thiem
2008-04-10 7:30 ` Iain Buchanan [this message]
2008-04-10 7:57 ` Uwe Thiem
2008-04-10 8:28 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2008-04-10 10:44 ` Peter Humphrey
2008-04-10 10:56 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-04-10 11:59 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2008-04-10 12:08 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-04-10 12:48 ` Etaoin Shrdlu
2008-04-10 12:55 ` Uwe Thiem
2008-04-11 14:35 ` Qi Baobin
2008-04-11 9:35 ` Peter Humphrey
2008-04-11 9:36 ` Peter Humphrey
2008-04-10 7:16 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-04-10 7:35 ` Dale
2008-04-10 8:02 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-04-10 11:37 ` Dale
2008-04-10 12:10 ` Alan McKinnon
2008-04-10 13:57 ` Neil Bothwick
2008-04-11 12:15 ` Graham Murray
2008-04-11 12:43 ` Neil Bothwick
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