Re: [gentoo-user] Blocked packages

["J. Roeleveld" <joost@antarean.org>]

On Thursday, May 22, 2014 05:08:17 PM Zoltán Kócsi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm fairly new to Gentoo and I have a blocking issue which I don't
> really understand.
> 
> I want to install some packages with docs but emerge tells me that it
> can't do that. Quite interestingly it complains about blocked packages.
> 
> One of them is openrc and the other is linux-util. I don't want to
> delete either one, and wisely so, because even emerge tells me that
> they are part of my system profile and should not be deleted.
> 
> Now the actual questions I have are the following:
> 
> - Why does emerge complain about blocking packages when I want to
>   recompile a few *other* packages, already on the system and all I
>   want is their documentation created?
> 
> - If those two packages do indeed block each other, why are they in my
>   system profile, which was set up by Gentoo itself when I installed
>   the system?
> 
> - If they block each other, how did both get installed on the machine?
> 
> - Why do they block each other? As far as I could see, they are not
>   clashing, one is a SysV type init scripts and the 'rc' binary and the
>   other is all sorts of utilities and system management stuff.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Zoltan

Can you send the actual emerge-output you are seeing along with the full 
emerge-command you are issuing?

Many thanks,

Joost