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From: "Mark Knecht" <markknecht@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] How to fix a hefty (emerge) blocking problem
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On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
> I've allowed my desktop OS to become somewhat outdated.  And I haven't
> followed all the recent changes to gentoo, so of course I am a little
> baffled by what appears to a real mess of overlapping dependencies or
> something causing 16 different blocking problems.
>
> The output of emerge -vuDNp shows a message saying I might be able
> solve some of the problem with masking but that appears to be only one
> small part of the blocking.
>
> I've included below some long output from:
>
>  emerge -vuDNpt world  (to show the interdependence's)
>

Take a look at

emerge -pvDuN system

first. Get that up to date. Dan's instructions should get you past
some of this. For now make ##sure## you do an emerge -f to fetch files
you might need. (Or use another local machine to get copies from if
you break something.

You'll get through it but it might be a bit of work.

good luck,
Mark