On Friday 19 October 2007 11:22:00 Jules Colding wrote:
> I'm trying to emerge memoir but it is blocking its own dependency -
> tetex:
>
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> omc-2 ~ # emerge -va dev-tex/memoir
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild  N    ] app-text/tetex-3.0_p1-r4  USE="X -Xaw3d -doc -lesstif
> -motif -neXt -tk" 0 kB [ebuild  N    ] dev-tex/memoir-20060211  1,720 kB
> [blocks B     ] dev-tex/memoir (is blocking app-text/tetex-3.0_p1-r4)
>
> Total: 2 packages (2 new, 1 block), Size of downloads: 1,720 kB
> ##################################################
>
> What can I do about that?

Theoretically you could downgrade tetex to 2.x and mask tetex 3.x. I doubt you 
want to do that though since the reason for the block is that memoir is part 
of tetex 3.x...

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Bo Andresen