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 ) id 1JFbKm-0001p7-MH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:27:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 94D2BE0832; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:26:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com (fk-out-0910.google.com [209.85.128.187]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D6057E081B for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 20:26:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 18so1181432fkq.2 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:26:30 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; bh=jXnI5q2vvMdQk889uy6YfC8NTDirDr/nU3yhDULuca8=; b=IM+k6OSFeGxjFJFOwm4cuOPHiVegs1sQYb82G2jM3maQKvIXfw/w+2jYd81w+xlrvnAzuqjYQitfzIEU5zM5lfdZ+FAJDr/ZXmnX7Ki/EjneohF2IT0XSVTORr/mIM+/OlthMQ0KzWhWhD0l6AWCbn8BEFTye62XV8Bn9FIvnJk= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=IZ0mE+xE3bMgNcuPc1My9HxDvxcmDFQLLcexcJRe19PUPJMx//ghaH3V3ueOENwwQdIaS+YYSSFfcYQ102qUvsixUKS8ol08kHyx2xYyp9CBKFWKdurHqoCviwU19bRBMJjW6qMCcw6VeEvH2bq2dHnceqpi7/8UH7GRMN3OT/g= Received: by 10.78.149.15 with SMTP id w15mr3461776hud.72.1200601590033; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:26:30 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?10.0.0.3? ( [41.243.201.245]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id f7sm1422022nfh.39.2008.01.17.12.26.27 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Thu, 17 Jan 2008 12:26:29 -0800 (PST) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Once again baffled by portage Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 22:20:51 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <200801171806.28565.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200801172220.51824.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 993542c8-4729-4f26-81d2-6014d86c539f X-Archives-Hash: c3e41031f5e7d40b9a8ec68d055bf1e6 On Thursday 17 January 2008, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2008-01-17, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Essentially you are trying to install one of the individual > > packages from a -meta package at the same time as a corresponding > > monolithic package,and portage is correctly refusing to let you do > > this. > > Sure, it makes sense now. :) > > Thanks for the explanation. I just re-read my own post and I'm left with one impression: There gotta be an easier way to do this split-ebuild thing where the user can see at a glance if a package is monolithic or not... -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list