From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-78219-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1JjrEs-0003CW-A3 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:30:30 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A41D6E028A; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:30:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.netspace.net.au (mail-out2.netspace.net.au [203.10.110.72]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A555E028A for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 07:30:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [172.16.0.52] (ppp246-231.static.internode.on.net [203.122.246.231]) by mail.netspace.net.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 278BE70756 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:30:24 +1000 (EST) Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] blocking package can't be found From: Iain Buchanan <iaindb@netspace.net.au> To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200804100811.00798.uwix@iway.na> References: <200804091740.41507.uwix@iway.na> <200804091851.39938.uwix@iway.na> <1207805138.28381.17.camel@orpheus> <200804100811.00798.uwix@iway.na> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2008 17:00:21 +0930 Message-Id: <1207812621.7497.13.camel@orpheus> Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 8347f9fd-5345-4ebc-a6d7-d58ecfe88726 X-Archives-Hash: a949753d2a7d8565e70279dee0688b01 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 -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list