On Thu, 2008-04-10 at 09:11 +0200, Uwe Thiem wrote:
> On Thursday 10 April 2008, Iain Buchanan wrote:
>
> > I think it just means gtk-doc-am wants a newer gtk-doc, so it's
> > blocking the one you have installed. You need to uninstall
> > gtk-doc, and then you can install a newer gtk-doc and gtk-doc-am.
>
> It works. Thanks! But I don't understand why. Emerge clearly said that
> gtk-doc-am blocked gtk-doc, not the other way round. Uh, well...

gtk-doc-am _does_ block gtk-doc. Since you already have gtk-doc
installed, gtk-doc-am couldn't go ahead.

Often with a blocker, you don't have the blockee already installed. ie.
blocker-pkg blocks blockee-pkg, and both are required by other
ebuilds...
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