on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Alan McKinnon(alan.mckinnon@(protected)
> 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   ] <gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.0 (is blocking
> > 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 think I have a couple of more like that as well.
>
> Do you mean that you don't have these packages installed, or that they
> are not even in portage? For the second case, re-sync. For the first
> case, you need to find out what is pulling those packages in, and make
> the necessary changes. This may help, you can also rerun your emerge
> world with the "--tree" option to see what is going on:
>
> alan@(protected)
> [ Searching for packages depending on gnome-applets... ]
> gnome-base/gnome-2.20.3 (>=gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.20.1)
> gnome-base/gnome-2.22.0 (>=gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.0)
> gnome-base/gnome-2.22.1 (>=gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.1)
> gnome-extra/shermans-aquarium-2.2.0 (>=gnome-base/gnome-applets-2)
>
> alan@(protected)
> [ Searching for packages depending on libgweather... ]
> gnome-base/gnome-2.22.0 (>=dev-libs/libgweather-2.22.0)
> gnome-base/gnome-2.22.1 (>=dev-libs/libgweather-2.22.1.1)
> gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.0 (>=dev-libs/libgweather-2.21.1)
> gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.1 (>=dev-libs/libgweather-2.22.1)
> gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.22.0 (>=dev-libs/libgweather-2.21.2)
> gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.22.1.1 (>=dev-libs/libgweather-2.22.1)
> gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.22.1.2 (>=dev-libs/libgweather-2.22.1)
> gnome-base/gnome-panel-2.22.1.3 (>=dev-libs/libgweather-2.22.1)
>
> Are you sure you didn't emerge gnome?
>

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 which seems strange to me.
I will try the -tree option and see what I get.


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