Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Aug 2015 00:19:08 -0400, cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
>
> > Hi. On my latest update of world, I have a few blockers which I am
> > unable to figure out how to solve -- I will put the related output below
> > with inserted comments. I am using "unstable" gentooand I have masked
> > ncurses-6 for the time being. Portage also wants to downgrade my
> > systemd from 221(0/2) to 219_p112(0/2).
> >
> > [blocks B ] sys-apps/systemd[gudev(-)]
> > ("sys-apps/systemd[gudev(-)]" is blocking dev-libs/libgudev-230)
> > [blocks B ] sys-apps/sysvinit ("sys-apps/sysvinit" is blocking
> > sys-apps/systemd-219_p112) [blocks B ] dev-libs/libgudev
> > ("dev-libs/libgudev" is blocking sys-apps/systemd-219_p112)
> >
> You have omitted some important information before this, but the problem
> you have is that something is trying to pull in libgudev, which is
> provided by systemd and well, hence the blocker. Packages should depend on
> virtual/libgudev, which avoids this type of conflict. Run the update
> again --tree to see just what is trying to install libgudev.
>
> > Total: 75 packages (64 upgrades, 1 downgrade, 7 new, 2 in new slots, 1
> > reinstall), Size of downloads: 273,248 KiB Conflict: 3 blocks (3
> > unsatisfied)
>
> In this situation, with so many packages being updated, I try to reduce
> the noise from portage by emerge --oneshot-ing anything in the list that
> is not related to the blockers, it makes the tree output much easier to
> work with.
OK, I will try that, I thought it would tell me what is pulling libgudev
in.
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