Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Portage: missing pieces

["Devon Miller" <devon.c.miller@gmail.com>]

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> >=sys-apps/shadow-4.0.14-r2 (is blocking sys-apps/pam-login-4.0.14)
The trick here is to unmerge pam-login, then merge shadow with USE="pam".
The functionality of pam-login has been folded into shadow, so using
pam-login is deprecated.

dcm

On 7/6/06, Richard Fish <bigfish@asmallpond.org> wrote:
>
> On 7/6/06, Molle Bestefich <molle.bestefich@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > ... snip ...
> >
> > Any other suggestions?
>
> Dont "snip".  The relevant part comes *after* the "blocks" lines.
>
> Also, you are mis-interpreting the "blocks" lines.  The correct
> reading of "X (is blocking Y)" is that you have (or should have) X
> installed, and now portage wants to install Y instead.  Usually this
> is because Y supercedes the functionality that used to be provided by
> X, and  in almost all cases, the right thing to do is to unmerge X and
> merge Y.
>
> The exceptions on your system are pam-login/shadow, and
> seamonkey/mozilla.  For some reason portage wants to install/keep
> both.  This is where you need to look at the *full* --tree output to
> see what is trying to pull those packages in.
>
> -Richard
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