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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...
-- 
Iain Buchanan <iaindb at netspace dot net dot au>

The magic of our first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
		-- Benjamin Disraeli

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-04-10  7:30 UTC|newest]

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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