On Mittwoch, 2. April 2008, Walter Dnes wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 05:48:22AM +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote
>
> > emerge unmerge openmotif
> > emerge openmotif
>
>  Thanks; it worked. Actually, I unmerged openmotif, and then went
> right to the update of world. I misread the diagnostic message...
>
> "<=x11-libs/openmotif-2.3.0 (is blocking x11-libs/openmotif-2.3.0-r1)"
>
> ...as saying that some other program required a version of openmotif
> which was <= 2.3.0. I figure that an older version of program x should
> not be considered as a "block" to a newer version of program x. Isn't
> that the whole point of "--update"?

well, maybe it was done to make sure that there is a proper cleanup?

You have to ask the devs why they did it that way ;)
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