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 1JuUgq-000473-MO for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 09 May 2008 15:39:20 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4AD09E0591; Fri, 9 May 2008 15:39:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.190]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1172AE0591 for ; Fri, 9 May 2008 15:39:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id c7so764812nfi.26 for ; Fri, 09 May 2008 08:39:17 -0700 (PDT) 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=T0P2X0kXq0ZoLS2fK2RFL5aA4YoCwtQHt0msOkyiGjA=; b=sDsNUytUyW4/jvBVLewqPvcs3yCbdwK/KpGJ7XbgakpJGeC+TKCkSWvd0Ukfzwp62tkMqyTQ0aEYRmB+uSK8Sa7jEGErfgPlnefED5a0MHenj293nYcX8V2+Kyg0ng7cexarr3BGwZsskGmo9LeUivDoWpi3uvWwFb9w83kfxjY= 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=J66+EqTZq41ogAEMysM0nri/SkdIz6jKO2NUye9NeHSOMomAAV6VBm9CgmZVG/++jiptwJZPgdunS8V1cNw+iVBeo+cKTLUToa/AGFVl67MqMC+M76FqfFMM3o/YA3TQHDwhcPrsi4IvF4UF6dEl6JIgHzQwAcFv0whVz5i8Ckw= Received: by 10.67.98.15 with SMTP id a15mr1188515ugm.32.1210347557213; Fri, 09 May 2008 08:39:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?10.0.0.4? ( [41.243.199.220]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id j34sm919426ugc.40.2008.05.09.08.39.14 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 09 May 2008 08:39:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage & foomatic problem: SOLVED Date: Fri, 9 May 2008 17:39:03 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.9 References: <1210268073.482339a933b6a@imp.free.fr> <200805091458.31350.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> <1210343664.482460f06a38f@imp.free.fr> In-Reply-To: <1210343664.482460f06a38f@imp.free.fr> 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: <200805091739.04057.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 17d44cfa-2693-4df5-869f-f716efff02b6 X-Archives-Hash: 1ac62ac82f50c6d3d8aa0212b8fcab27 On Friday 09 May 2008, alain.didierjean@free.fr wrote: > Thanks for the help, I was lost as I didn't realize that emerge was > trying to update a meta-package (foomatic) no more in portage... Long bitter hard experience has shown me that if I get A blocks B messages, I usually have to: eix A eix B read A's ebuild read B's ebuild then and only then do I have enough information to know what to do about it. Portage does well at telling you that blockers are present and where they are coming from, but is completely useless at giving good reasons why and what the best resolution is. -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list