From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KvEcv-0004GZ-FV for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:14:37 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B9FC4E0455; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:14:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from el-out-1112.google.com (el-out-1112.google.com [209.85.162.179]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C0DEE0455 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:14:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id z25so45053ele.1 for ; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:14:35 -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:to :subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; bh=Y6aCOfJlrxAR26ZsrGWfh3+niQNGKvyvTKl4B5jLtjE=; b=gefnxXlfXK/v3GLd0emxH0wPPfq6hEU8DKt2v7a+bp2h51jiqXfimPElySGLcLmA5+ MIz3kpHOgOA93KCbyN3s6zcdnBuXc1nX+sDzdkzqwD4yUpQIsmEXPgL0AwX2eneGf6CQ KoLdHzIfMx6Y2SWA9g9IdJjl9ttZhCBJCIQoA= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version :content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition :references; b=T66S0eXwU+3JECk/YuXy+wITUl91Lso54XAX/pyOBRRRupUkihoD3dM0F34pZyJrMg tKox8vvVlyuKMFn14WgA094mhl9wB9LA3MWel+OzB036E0ubTefVBo2Yk560tzQqUtha SRRud9od87T1rTR1jCFA1m60zXi59vXo/8gDk= Received: by 10.142.125.9 with SMTP id x9mr4150173wfc.89.1225300474608; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:14:34 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.143.40.6 with HTTP; Wed, 29 Oct 2008 10:14:34 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:14:34 -0400 From: "Andrey Vul" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2 In-Reply-To: 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 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200810291856.49988.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 925ac76a-2efc-4f36-b5be-e030f6696ab9 X-Archives-Hash: ce84f13a058aa88b0789fe8c94381029 On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: > Thank you both for your responses, i will try dealing with QT first and then > emerge udev separately, without any mercilless barbaric > running-around-barely-dressed-waving-an-axe-around unmerging. It'll be faster do do udev first. Get it done and over with. Qt will take 2+ hours to compile. > I'm gonna miss the sledgehammer though... I sledgehammer my way through blocks and no problems here :D > Seroiusly, thanks very much for your help > > PD: As soon as i get it done i will tell how the outcome was > > 2008/10/29 Alan McKinnon >> >> On Wednesday 29 October 2008 18:41:47 Andrey Vul wrote: >> > > [blocks B ] > > > media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.19-r2, media-libs/libgphoto2-2.4.2) >> > > >> > > My usual solution for problems of this kind is to mercilessly unmerge >> > > any >> > > packages that stand in my way, but, considering we are talking about >> > > packages like qt and udev, i must admit i do not dare to follow my >> > > usual >> > > strategy. >> >> Instead of unmerging stuff without mercy, taking a sledgehammer to the >> problem >> and generally acting like a Windows user, I recommend you read the output >> and >> understand what is going on. >> >> It clearly says that your *current* version of udev which is less than 114 >> is >> blocking sane-backends and libgphoto. So, merge udev separately: >> >> emerge -av1 udev I prefer emerge -1pv udev emerge -1 udev >> there's no need for udev to go in world, it's already in system. Then >> emerge >> world and it will probably work (after you deal with qt that is, but >> another >> poster told you how to do that) -- Andrey Vul A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?