Re: [gentoo-user] Portage question...

[James Colby <jcolby@gmail.com>]

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Yann - 

I'm not sure about the downgrade from 3.3.6 to 3.3.5, but I had the same 
problem with libungif. I fixed it by unmerging giflib (emerge --ask 
--unmerge media-libs/giflib). Then re-running the update, which actually 
re-installed giflib for me.

HTH

On 9/14/05, Yann GARNIER <garnier-yann@wanadoo.fr> wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> I did an "emerge -vuD world" last week and, among other thing, it updated 
> GCC from 3.3.5 to 3.3.6 (which seemed to be a good thing..)
> Today after an "emerge --sync" I wanted to re-update my system ... and I'm 
> wondering why portage 'wants' to downgrade my version of GCC from 3.3.6
> to 3.3.5... but also wondering why it suddenly wants to install giflib 
> (which is blocked because of libungif...)
> The only thing I can do now to update the system is to add "-gif" in my 
> make.conf file.
> 
> Is there any other way to solve the giflib/libungif conflict ?
> 
> What makes portage want to install giflib ?
> 
> Can someone tell me what I missed ?
> 
> In advance thank you.
> 
> Yann Garnier
> 
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