I think it's bidirections. Becourse I got 'A blocks B' one, when both of them weren't installed.(I was installing C,and I don't know why C depends on both A and B).
On 14:55 Thu 10 Apr , Uwe Thiem wrote: > On Thursday 10 April 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote: > > On Thursday 10 April 2008, 14:08, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > In any event, when portage says "A blocks B" your options and > > > always only: > > > > > > - unmerge B and optionally remerge or upgrade it later > > > - do not use A > > > > I have always resolved "A blocks B" problems by unmerging A. After > > that, portage was not complaining anymore, and B emerged fine. > > > > Or at least, that's what I think I did :-) > > That was what I did as well in the past. Didn't work this time because > I couldn't unmerge A because it apparently wasn't installed yet. > > Obviously Alan was right because all went well after I unmerged B. The > problem remains that I am pretty sure I will draw the same conclusion > next time this happens. Well, I will read Alans explanation another > couple of times. Maybe enlightenment will eventual strike me. ;-) > > Uwe > > -- > Informal Linux Group Namibia: > http://www.linux.org.na/ > SysEx (Pty) Ltd.: > http://www.SysEx.com.na/ > -- > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
