Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2

2008-10-30 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Andrey Vul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But I usually use emerge -p > file in order to see the difference in > dependencies from testing USE flags. > I would always choose -pN over -aN. > > Where's the portage to-do list? > If you can find it, add these two items:

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2

2008-10-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 29 October 2008 19:59:11 Alan McKinnon wrote: > A last note on emerge's output, especially with blockers: the time spent > to read all the portage pages (several times) is time very well spent. I > recommend when next you get blockers, is to rerun emerge with -t and take > note of wha

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2

2008-10-29 Thread Andrey Vul
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Joshua Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Andrey Vul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I don't like package managers which require interactivity. >> emerge -uvDp world | less is easier to parse then emerge -upDa world. >> Why? Because I

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2

2008-10-29 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Andrey Vul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't like package managers which require interactivity. > emerge -uvDp world | less is easier to parse then emerge -upDa world. > Why? Because I don't have to find a way of transferring if > less handles all of the keyboar

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2

2008-10-29 Thread Andrey Vul
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:14:34 -0400, Andrey Vul wrote: > >> >> emerge -av1 udev >> I prefer emerge -1pv udev >> >> emerge -1 udev > > Which means you have to wait for the dependency resolver to run twice. > Which is why it'

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2

2008-10-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:52:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > emerge -1av udev > > look at output > > press enter > > you have it wrong: > > emerge -1av udev > do not press enter > look at output > press enter Looking at the output only confuses me, I prefer to skip that step :) -- Neil Bo

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2

2008-10-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 29 October 2008 22:46:34 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:14:34 -0400, Andrey Vul wrote: > > >> emerge -av1 udev > > > > I prefer emerge -1pv udev > > > > emerge -1 udev > > Which means you have to wait for the dependency resolver to run twice. > Which is why it's better

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2

2008-10-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:14:34 -0400, Andrey Vul wrote: > >> emerge -av1 udev > I prefer emerge -1pv udev > > emerge -1 udev Which means you have to wait for the dependency resolver to run twice. Which is why it's better to use emerge -1av udev look at output press enter -- Neil Bothwick If

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2

2008-10-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 29 October 2008 19:03:51 Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: > Thank you both for your responses, i will try dealing with QT first and > then emerge udev separately, without any mercilless barbaric > running-around-barely-dressed-waving-an-axe-around unmerging. There you go, that's a good lad :

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2

2008-10-29 Thread Andrey Vul
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Rafael Barrera Oro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you both for your responses, i will try dealing with QT first and then > emerge udev separately, without any mercilless barbaric > running-around-barely-dressed-waving-an-axe-around unmerging. It'll be faster do

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2

2008-10-29 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
Thank you both for your responses, i will try dealing with QT first and then emerge udev separately, without any mercilless barbaric running-around-barely-dressed-waving-an-axe-around unmerging. I'm gonna miss the sledgehammer though... Seroiusly, thanks very much for your help PD: As soon as i

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2

2008-10-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 29 October 2008 18:41:47 Andrey Vul wrote: > > [blocks B     ] > media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.19-r2, media-libs/libgphoto2-2.4.2) > > > > My usual solution for problems of this kind is to mercilessly unmerge any > > packages that stand in my way, but, considering we are talking about >

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2

2008-10-29 Thread Andrey Vul
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Rafael Barrera Oro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello people, i tried to install kde-meta-4.1.2 and i ran across a few > problems. The thing is that some packages are blocking packages required for > the installation > > The following is output of portage when disp

[gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2

2008-10-29 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
Hello people, i tried to install kde-meta-4.1.2 and i ran across a few problems. The thing is that some packages are blocking packages required for the installation The following is output of portage when displaying the blocking packages [uninstall] app-crypt/qca-1.0-r2 [?] [blocks b ]