On 01/30/2017 02:04 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 30/01/2017 22:57, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >> On 01/30/2017 01:41 PM, Grant Edwards wrote: >>> On 2017-01-30, the...@sys-concept.com <the...@sys-concept.com> wrote: >>>> On 01/29/2017 01:56 PM, the...@sys-concept.com wrote: >>>>> I haven't updated my system for over a year (1year and 3-months). >>>>> I was trying to upgrade my firefox-bin and I'm already running into >>>>> problems. >>>>> >>>> [snip] >>>> >>>> OK, I have just few blockers. What to do with them? >>>> I have grup-0.97-r16 installed in slot: "0" >>>> >>>> >>>> [blocks B ] sys-boot/grub:2[-multislot] ("sys-boot/grub:2[-multislot]" >>>> is blocking sys-boot/grub-0.97-r16) >>>> [blocks B ] sys-boot/grub:0 ("sys-boot/grub:0" is blocking >>>> sys-boot/grub-2.02_beta3-r1) >>> >>> You probably need to set the 'multislot' use flag for grub. >> >> I don't use grub-2. >> I think I will need to install grub-0.97-r16 >> and reinstall it gain. > > either mask grub:2 or explicitly enable grub:0 only. Edit your world > file to have this for grub: > sys-boot/grub:0 > >> Do I need to enable 'multislot' use flag for grub? > > You need to learn to look things up first. > > grub:0 doesn't have a multislot USE flag, only grub:0 does
Thank Alan, I just blocked off grub all together. So the system is compiling 509 packages; on my old x86 once core system; I think it will take a few days :-/ -- Thelma