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 1JFajw-0006Wp-0e for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:49:28 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3061DE083C; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:47:27 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86C6CE083A for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:47:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1708864597 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:47:26 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.165 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.165 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.434, 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 jtkm5G9+GHMO for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:47:19 +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 54D0464809 for ; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:47:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JFahj-0006eV-UG for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:47:11 +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 19:47:11 +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 19:47:11 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Once again baffled by portage Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2008 19:47:05 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: References: <200801171806.28565.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 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: b13e2915-1d0e-45b7-8945-29af7af93844 X-Archives-Hash: f95e4722b93eee83c7f7b55d15f11e63 On 2008-01-17, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Thursday 17 January 2008, Grant Edwards wrote: >> 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/*. > > The solution is a little more complex than in Michael's reply and this > may take a while :-) [...] > Essentially you are trying to install one of the individual packages > from a -meta package at the same time as a corresponding monolithic > package,and portage is correctly refusing to let you do this. Sure, it makes sense now. :) Thanks for the explanation. -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I was making donuts at and now I'm on a bus! visi.com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list