From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MjTfn-000092-RA for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 07:57:32 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B2D0FE08F9; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 13:06:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yw0-f185.google.com (mail-yw0-f185.google.com [209.85.211.185]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87DC6E08F9 for ; Fri, 4 Sep 2009 13:06:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ywh15 with SMTP id 15so1411923ywh.10 for ; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:06:02 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=DwwB1xNOxCIZOnvE8WWAyVeGMrPyuhg17ru3FXWX9yg=; b=rtfIUP5lgw13qOnuMH8ufPCQkyK+4AHfD+wtS7ZRhGtY6490seD0aUofn65c1cN7B2 gOx4QvralF93r7NORE8qDQKD5DnuSE+UJa7QWjsjwW2F/LfJ1HaUf969l7g/sLFNYRu4 iQU5Wgwc6vyDbx2vgM5UDIDSqo4gaeGTb53/I= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=f2KDhLySf/nQM//QaUxV/DNqCC4o+Jcu8pm86lSh5IE+LKiWa8mZFWTS3v6LkE7HRe qfPJSF03Q3Xhxk0xHjZ31JA031Zy/hfBozW0F4eZxISDNjU+Upcq3iBFvfN1gdBhm6gM 16d80xdCvYDCGePwG/I5Dajl92CDS8M6dvZ4M= Received: by 10.100.50.30 with SMTP id x30mr12242100anx.169.1252069562014; Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:06:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ?192.168.1.1? (adsl-227-48-109.jan.bellsouth.net [74.227.48.109]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c37sm34746ana.16.2009.09.04.06.05.57 (version=SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Fri, 04 Sep 2009 06:06:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <4AA110B1.8020109@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 04 Sep 2009 08:05:53 -0500 From: Dale User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.22) Gecko/20090823 SeaMonkey/1.1.17 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 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] References: <20090904044751.823EACD0@resin13.mta.everyone.net> <200909041402.45068.joost@antarean.org> In-Reply-To: <200909041402.45068.joost@antarean.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: a4f690d3-8811-49b3-b5ac-9034de50fc0e X-Archives-Hash: c134b02fdc5b401011e4b2ba6b2cee61 J. Roeleveld wrote: > On Friday 04 September 2009 13:47:51 Cinder Cinder wrote: > >> Wow! I made it! I'm in! Just installed my first Gentoo (Phew!). Its cool! >> I'm up to part 2 of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook "Working With Gentoo" and >> I've managed to install a few things, namely vim, links, and xorg-server >> (As per the Xorg server Configuration Guide) in addition the some essential >> tools mentioned in the Handbook. I tried to install xfce4-meta (Xfce >> Configuration Guide) >> >> code: >> # emerge -avt xfce4-meta >> >> ... and was informed that I need to add +jpeg to my USE flags. So I did >> (minus the plus sign:) Then emerge said some packages are blocking each >> other. I tried unmerging the blocking packages as per the Handbook. but >> they don't seem to be installed yet, so that seems to rule out updating >> them. The Handbook says if two yet to be installed packages are blocking >> each other I should file a bug report. I don't understand bug reporting >> yet. I tried updating the system. >> >> Code: >> # emerge --update --deep world >> >> ... but I get the same meassage. Can anyone help? Heres my /etc/make.conf >> >> > > > > Can you paste the exact output you get when you run: > > # emerge -va --update --deep world > the "-va" will make the output verbose and will ask for confirmation if all > dependencies can be resolved correctly. > (might be usefull to always use that to double check what you are installing) > > -- > Joost > > > The OP may also want to consider unmasking the latest portage, portage-2.2_rc40. That is the version I am using and it seems to work fine. This may take care of some of the blocking issues depending on the version of portage he is currently using. Just worth thinking about. Dale :-) :-)