Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:15:12 -0400, John covici wrote: > OK, I will try making all the gst-plugins unstable and see if that > fixes things -- I have been warned not to convert the whole box to > unstable -- is this a correct warning? I don't believe so. Marking a few packages as testing on packag

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: > OK, I will try making all the gst-plugins unstable and see if that > fixes things -- I have been warned not to convert the whole box to > unstable -- is this a correct warning? Depends how much you adore gentoo and how much time you are willing t

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: > > on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > > > > > > [nomerge ] media-sound/sound-juicer-2.22.0 [2.20.1-r1] > > > USE="-debug -test (-flac%*) (-ogg

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > > /me lumbers off in search of mind-altering substances with > > > depressant side-effects > > > > Just watch TV for a while. > > Yeah right :-) > > 4 possibilities: > > SABC 1 > SABC 2 > SABC 3

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: > on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > > > [nomerge ] media-sound/sound-juicer-2.22.0 [2.20.1-r1] > > USE="-debug -test (-flac%*) (-ogg%*)" > > [ebuild U ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta-0.10-r2 [0.10] > > USE

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: > > > OK, here is the requested output. > > These questions are coming up a lot lately, and it's always the same > stuff: how the hell do I read this output? I don;t have these t

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > /me lumbers off in search of mind-altering substances with > > depressant side-effects > > Just watch TV for a while. Yeah right :-) 4 possibilities: SABC 1 SABC 2 SABC 3 eTV Which would you recommend? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:45:35 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: > > Thanks Neil, thanks a lot for mentioning that. Now I have > > horrifying images burned into my brain of doxygen, openjade, SGML > > and DTDs lumbering out of holes in the ground and slithering > > towards me, zombie-like, hell bent on devour

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:00:40 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > Thanks Neil, thanks a lot for mentioning that. Now I have horrifying > images burned into my brain of doxygen, openjade, SGML and DTDs > lumbering out of holes in the ground and slithering towards me, > zombie-like, hell bent on devouri

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:16:07 -0400, John covici wrote: > I put the doc flag in there because a number of packages -- and I > can't remember which ones now -- needed it, I think apache was one of > them, so I gave up and did it -- maybe taking it out for the time > being will help things along. I

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > > USE="doc" adds extra documentation, usually API information > > for programmers, which is why it is rarely needed globally. The > > doc flag increases the dependencies of some packages, sometimes

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: > I put the doc flag in there because a number of packages -- and I > can't remember which ones now -- needed it, I think apache was one of > them, so I gave up and did it -- maybe taking it out for the time > being will help things along. 'equery has

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: > USE="doc" adds extra documentation, usually API information > for programmers, which is why it is rarely needed globally. The doc > flag increases the dependencies of some packages, sometimes > massively. Thanks Neil, thanks a lot for mentioning

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:58:23 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > > These questions are coming up a lot lately, and it's always the same > > stuff: how the hell do I read this output? I don;t have these things > > installed. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:58:23 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > These questions are coming up a lot lately, and it's always the same > stuff: how the hell do I read this output? I don;t have these things > installed. [good stuff snipped] Two other things that help. You have 228 packages marked for

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: > OK, here is the requested output. These questions are coming up a lot lately, and it's always the same stuff: how the hell do I read this output? I don;t have these things installed. Basic ideas of blockers; The output doesn't mean that you have

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:03:29 -0400, John covici wrote: > But now I have still more problems with blocking -- > [blocks B ] media-libs/gstreamer-0.10.19) > [blocks B ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am (is blocking > dev-util/gtk-doc-1.8-r2) Please show the whole output of your world update command, w

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 04/30/2008 John covici([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > > On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:24:59 -0400, John covici wrote: > > > > > > > I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world today > > > > > and got the f

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:24:59 -0400, John covici wrote: > > > > > I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world today > > > > and got the following strange message: > > > > [blocks B ] > > > dev-libs/libgwea

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:24:59 -0400, John covici wrote: > > > I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world today > > > and got the following strange message: > > > [blocks B ] > > dev-libs/libgweather-2.22.1.1) > Hi. The first case is the correct one -- the packages are in

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: > Hi.  The first case is the correct one -- the packages are in > portage, but the version numbers listed are not on the system -- this > is what I meant -- so I have two packages blocking each other the > blocking versions are not on the system at all

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: > > I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world today and > > got the following strange message: > > [blocks B ] > dev-libs/libgweather-2.22.1.1) > > > > Now I h

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: > I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world today and > got the following strange message: > [blocks B ] dev-libs/libgweather-2.22.1.1) > > Now I have neither of these on my system, so what is the matter -- is > portage insane? I

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-29 Thread John covici
on Tuesday 04/29/2008 Ian Graeme Hilt([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote > On Tuesday 29 April 2008 08:27:57 pm John covici wrote: > > I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world > > today and got the following strange message: > > [blocks B ] > dev-libs/libgweather-2.22.1.1) > > L

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-29 Thread Ian Graeme Hilt
On Tuesday 29 April 2008 08:27:57 pm John covici wrote: > I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world > today and got the following strange message: > [blocks B ] dev-libs/libgweather-2.22.1.1) Looks like you're running unstable. In this case you're supposed to know what to do

[gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-29 Thread John covici
I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world today and got the following strange message: [blocks B ]