[gentoo-user] Re: Once again baffled by portage

[Michael Schmarck <michael.schmarck@habmalnefrage.de>]

· Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>:

> Why won't portage let me install kompare?

Because you already have it.

>    # emerge --pretend kompare
>    
>    These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>    
>    Calculating dependencies... done!
>    [ebuild  N    ] kde-base/kompare-3.5.7  USE="arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -kdehiddenvisibility -xinerama" 
>    [blocks B     ] =kde-base/kompare-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdesdk-3.5.7)
>    [blocks B     ] =kde-base/kdesdk-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kompare-3.5.7)
>    
> How does one figure out where these "blocks" are coming from?

By having a look in the ebuilds.

> There are no other versions of kompare installed.
> kde-base/kdesdk-3.5.7 _is_ installed.  There is no mention of
> kde<anything> in /etc/portage/*.

I suppose kompare is part of kdesdk. kdesdk is a huge package containing
lots of stuff. So I suppose you cannot have both kdesdk and a broken
out package (kompare) installed at the same time.

>    *  kde-base/kdesdk
>          Latest version available: 3.5.7
>          Latest version installed: 3.5.7
>          Size of files: 5,088 kB
>          Homepage:      http://www.kde.org/
>          Description:   KDE SDK: Cervisia, KBabel, KCachegrind, Kompare, Umbrello,...
>          License:       GPL-2

Yep. There it says: kdesdk also offers Kompare.

Hm, why would you want to install Kompare, if you already have it
installed? 

Michael Schmarck
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