Hi, Neil.
On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 01:17:01PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 10:39:18 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > After emerge-synching, an emerge -puND gives, in part:
> > [ebuild N ] x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.28.1
> > [ebuild U ] x11-libs/vte-0.28.1-r200 [0.26.2]
> > USE="introspection*" [blocks b ] <x11-libs/vte-0.27.90
> > ("<x11-libs/vte-0.27.90" is blocking x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.28.1)
> > . Am I right in thinking that the block means "your vte version is too
> > old for gnome-pty-helper"?
> Yes, but the lower case b means that portage will resolve the block for
> you. The only reason it has stopped after reporting the block is that
> you used -p.
> Only blocks marked with a B require manual intervention.
Ah, thanks! I just did an "emerge -uND world" and it worked. My Gnome
still works too, thankfully. ;-)
Thanks to everybody else who answered, too.
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
