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 1JFWgI-0002CT-Et for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:29:26 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C975DE084F; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:28:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F51AE084B for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:28:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B467B65888 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:28:44 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.163 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.163 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.436, BAYES_00=-2.599] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id b-HO8EUjo64D for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:28:38 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A04A657DD for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:28:35 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JFWfO-0000El-C1 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:28:30 +0000 Received: from c-76-17-159-23.hsd1.mn.comcast.net ([76.17.159.23]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:28:30 +0000 Received: from grante by c-76-17-159-23.hsd1.mn.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:28:30 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Once again baffled by portage Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 15:28:24 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-76-17-159-23.hsd1.mn.comcast.net User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1 (Linux) Sender: news 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 X-Archives-Salt: 5285d325-86a2-4a9b-94d0-1c74766a5bd5 X-Archives-Hash: a8dacfc8e3cfa19639a94abb40416a7c Why won't portage let me install kompare? # emerge --pretend kompare These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild N ] kde-base/kompare-3.5.7 USE="arts -debug -kdeenablefinal -kdehiddenvisibility -xinerama" [blocks B ] =kde-base/kompare-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdesdk-3.5.7) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdesdk-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kompare-3.5.7) How does one figure out where these "blocks" are coming from? There are no other versions of kompare installed. kde-base/kdesdk-3.5.7 _is_ installed. There is no mention of kde in /etc/portage/*. # emerge --search kompare Searching... [ Results for search key : kompare ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * kde-base/kompare Latest version available: 3.5.7 Latest version installed: [ Not Installed ] Size of files: 5,078 kB Homepage: http://www.kde.org/ Description: KDE: A program to view the differences between files and optionally generate a diff License: GPL-2 # emerge --search '%^kdesdk$' Searching... [ Results for search key : ^kdesdk$ ] [ Applications found : 1 ] * kde-base/kdesdk Latest version available: 3.5.7 Latest version installed: 3.5.7 Size of files: 5,088 kB Homepage: http://www.kde.org/ Description: KDE SDK: Cervisia, KBabel, KCachegrind, Kompare, Umbrello,... License: GPL-2 -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! Am I in Milwaukee? at visi.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list