From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QszfX-0002s9-4C for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:05:39 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4C9B721C1A0; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:05:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.cs.nyu.edu (SMTP.CS.NYU.EDU [128.122.49.97]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D377321C24E for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:03:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ajglap.localdomain (ool-182de1a5.dyn.optonline.net [24.45.225.165]) (authenticated bits=0) by smtp.cs.nyu.edu (8.14.3/8.14.4) with ESMTP id p7FG3Vbm003390 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:03:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: by ajglap.localdomain (Postfix, from userid 1502) id A8C807006C; Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:04:01 -0400 (EDT) From: Allan Gottlieb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] portage blockage gnome-control-center vs gnome-media References: <1332430.uP6uvQ3e7E@nazgul> <218924762.kZXUe7llTm@nazgul> Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 12:04:01 -0400 In-Reply-To: <218924762.kZXUe7llTm@nazgul> (Alan McKinnon's message of "Mon, 15 Aug 2011 10:27:44 +0200") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.3 (gnu/linux) 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=us-ascii X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 76790ba1b63647eef7a288351cf9cca0 On Mon, Aug 15 2011, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Sun 14 August 2011 19:55:28 Allan Gottlieb did opine thusly: >> On Sun, Aug 14 2011, Alan McKinnon wrote: >> > It's installing Gnome 3 stuff. >> > >> > Is that what you want? >> >> Yes. That is why I am using the gnome overlay >> >> > Look at your unmasking rules. >> >> They were supposed to be the ones that came with the instructions >> for moving to gnome 3. But I didn't realize that eix-update >> doesn't update layman and I need layman -S. It is still not >> working but I will study the new blockages arising after layman -S. > > That caught me out a few times too. I put these commands into a bash > alias: > > emerge --sync > layman -S > eix-update > > and use that to sync portage. That way I don't leave steps out. Right! allan PS After todays portage sync, there are no blocks.