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Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> writes:

> Because of the nature of a block, only one of the named packages can be
> installed, so just unmerge that one, wherever it appears in the block
> message :)

Is that always true? I seem to remember seeing cases where an upgrade of
X wanted to install A and the upgrade of Y wanted to install B, and the
blocker saying that A blocks B when neither (the specific versions of) A
nor B are currently installed.
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