On Thursday 10 April 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> If the word in emerge output was "block", meaning generically "there
> is a block, an incompatibility" you would be correct. But that word
> is "blocks", 3rd person singular, implying a subject and an object,
> ie something blocks something else. Or, at least that's how I see
> that, and I may be wrong of course.

If you read the ebuild you see what is actually going on with the
blocks, and the output could indeed be ambiguous.

"blocks" is 6 letters. A semantically correct phrase is longer and takes
up heaps of line length. The emerge dev apparently favours brevity and
complete data over absolute descriptive correctness.

In any event, when portage says "A blocks B" your options and always
only:

- unmerge B and optionally remerge or upgrade it later
- do not use A

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