[gentoo-user] self-referential blocks...

[gentoo-user] self-referential blocks...

[Michael George]

I am ready to update my system and a problem has crept up that I thought
I'd solved previously.

When I do an "emerge -Duva world", I get "kdebase is blocking konsole"
and then later down the list I have "konsole is blocking kdebase".

I understand that kde-base/kdebase is a monolithic package and I
actually only want individual packages on my system, so I didn't install
it.  However, something is now trying to pull it in.

"eix -e" of kdebase and kde shows that neither is installed (not the
monolithic nor the meta package).

"equery depends kdebase" lists:
app-cdr/k3b-0.12.4a
kde-base/kdm-3.4.1
kde-base/kcheckpass-3.4.1
kde-base/kdebase-meta-3.4.1

but "emerge -Duvp k3b kdm kcheckpass kdebase-meta" doesn't show the
blockage problem.

"emerge -tuvp world" shows that kdegames is the culprit, but it is
installed now and doesn't have kde-base.

Should I remove kdegames and put in kdegames-meta instead?

What is the difference between kde, kdebase, and kdebase-meta?  All
three have version 3.5.0, so it's apparent that none supercede the
others...

Thanks!

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Re: [gentoo-user] self-referential blocks...

[Neil Bothwick]

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On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 12:12:51 -0500, Michael George wrote:

> "emerge -tuvp world" shows that kdegames is the culprit, but it is
> installed now and doesn't have kde-base.
> 
> Should I remove kdegames and put in kdegames-meta instead?

Yes.
 
> What is the difference between kde, kdebase, and kdebase-meta?  All
> three have version 3.5.0, so it's apparent that none supercede the
> others...

kde is the meta package that pulls in all the monolithic builds. kdebase
is the core kde monolithic ebuild, along with kdelibs. kdebase-meta is
the meta-package that pulls in all the split ebuilds that come from
kdebase.


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Re: [gentoo-user] self-referential blocks...

[Michael George]

On Sun, Dec 11, 2005 at 06:03:59PM +0000, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Dec 2005 12:12:51 -0500, Michael George wrote:
> 
> > "emerge -tuvp world" shows that kdegames is the culprit, but it is
> > installed now and doesn't have kde-base.
> > 
> > Should I remove kdegames and put in kdegames-meta instead?
> 
> Yes.

That was the ticket!  Thank you very much!

> > What is the difference between kde, kdebase, and kdebase-meta?  All
> > three have version 3.5.0, so it's apparent that none supercede the
> > others...
> 
> kde is the meta package that pulls in all the monolithic builds. kdebase
> is the core kde monolithic ebuild, along with kdelibs. kdebase-meta is
> the meta-package that pulls in all the split ebuilds that come from
> kdebase.

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