From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (unknown [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F14D1381FA for ; Thu, 22 May 2014 08:24:04 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 13278E09C3; Thu, 22 May 2014 08:24:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 088CCE09B9 for ; Thu, 22 May 2014 08:23:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.135] (helo=smtp4.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WnOI9-00024N-Sj for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 May 2014 10:23:57 +0200 Received: from 53579160.cm-6-8c.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([83.87.145.96] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp4.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1WnOI9-0003Bx-Jt for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Thu, 22 May 2014 10:23:57 +0200 Received: from andromeda.localnet (unknown [213.19.196.11]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 414FF4C for ; Thu, 22 May 2014 10:23:35 +0200 (CEST) From: "J. Roeleveld" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Blocked packages Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 10:23:27 +0200 Message-ID: <43775300.T9X4vcNPMD@andromeda> User-Agent: KMail/4.12.5 (Linux/3.12.13-gentoo; KDE/4.12.5; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: <20140522170817.2b6d9eae@tade.bendor.com.au> References: <20140522170817.2b6d9eae@tade.bendor.com.au> 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-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" X-Ziggo-spambar: ---- X-Ziggo-spamscore: -4.9 X-Ziggo-spamreport: ALL_TRUSTED=-1,BAYES_00=-1.9,PROLO_TRUST_RDNS=-3,RDNS_DYNAMIC=0.982 X-Ziggo-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Status: No X-Spam-Flag: No X-Archives-Salt: 7d7e96e8-86ac-45af-b50b-134637b8ad2e X-Archives-Hash: 1ba258058f461349fff40115fa98619f On Thursday, May 22, 2014 05:08:17 PM Zolt=E1n K=F3csi wrote: > Hi, >=20 > I'm fairly new to Gentoo and I have a blocking issue which I don't > really understand. >=20 > I want to install some packages with docs but emerge tells me that it= > can't do that. Quite interestingly it complains about blocked package= s. >=20 > 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. >=20 > Now the actual questions I have are the following: >=20 > - 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? >=20 > - If those two packages do indeed block each other, why are they in m= y > system profile, which was set up by Gentoo itself when I installed > the system? >=20 > - If they block each other, how did both get installed on the machine= ? >=20 > - 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 t= he > other is all sorts of utilities and system management stuff. >=20 > Thanks, >=20 > Zoltan Can you send the actual emerge-output you are seeing along with the ful= l=20 emerge-command you are issuing? Many thanks, Joost