YoYo Siska schreef: > Holly Bostick wrote: > >>Tim Igoe schreef: >> >> >>>Allan Spagnol Comar wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>Hi all I am having some problem with emerge, I had emerged bootsplash, >>>>then I discover in this list that for newer kernels we should use >>>>splashutils, then I unmerged bootsplash and emerged splashutils, now I >>>>am trying to update my system and I am receiving this message: >>>> >>>>[blocks B ] media-gfx/splashutils (is blocking >>>>media-gfx/bootsplash-0.6.1-r7) >>>>[blocks B ] media-gfx/bootsplash (is blocking >>>>media-gfx/splashutils-0.9.1) >>>>.2] >>>>[ebuild N ] media-gfx/bootsplash-0.6.1-r7 >>>> >>>>what should I do to fix it ? >>>> >>>> >>> >>>Try unmerging the pair of them, then emerge splashutils >>> >>>If not, emerge -uDpt world - look at the tree produced to work out what >>>pulls in bootsplash >>> >> >> >>Cookie bet that it's a bootsplash-themes package... if so, uninstall >>said package (since you can't use it if you don't have bootsplash >>anyway), and then try the update again. >> >>Holly > > > don't bootsplash themes work with fbsplash and splashutils? > i think i'm using my old bootsplash theme right now... > but i may be wrong ;) > > yoyo
No, they don't-- or in any case, such themes have to be converted in order to run (since fbsplash is now so bootsplash compatible). These are different programs that use different syntax to do the same type of thing. They use a different backend as well; bootsplash doesn't know anything about vesafb-tng, either. In any case, any bootsplash-themes package you have installed doesn't know anything about fbsplash or splashutils-- it thinks it is dependent on bootsplash, therefore it would drag it in. Since it's about the only thing that would, as far as I can tell, a simple 'eix bootsplash' will confirm if I've won a cookie today (or not). Holly -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
