[gentoo-user] Re: xfce4 upgrade

[Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>]

On 2007-02-19, Douglas Linford <drkrider@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Good Day All,
>
> I just upgraded xfce4 to 4.4, and the base emerge was successful, but when I
> try to emerge the xfce4-extras, I get the following output:
>
> *************************************************************************************************
> iDeq ~ # emerge -pv xfce4-extras
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [blocks B     ] xfce-extra/xfce4-windowlist (is blocking
> xfce-base/libxfce4util-4.4.0-r1)

Yea, upgrading to XFCE 4.4 is a PITA.

The package structure/organization was changed completely, so
emerge gets confused.  It knows it can't install libxfce4util
because a bunch of older packages that were combined into
libxfce4util are still installed.  For whatever reason, emerge
doesn't know enough to remove the old packages.

I ended up removing all of the XFCE 4.2 packages with emerge -C.  

Only then was I able to emerge XFCE 4.4.

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