On Thursday 10 April 2008, Etaoin Shrdlu wrote:
> On Thursday 10 April 2008, 14:08, Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > 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
>
> I have always resolved "A blocks B" problems by unmerging A. After
> that, portage was not complaining anymore, and B emerged fine.
>
> Or at least, that's what I think I did :-)

That was what I did as well in the past. Didn't work this time because
I couldn't unmerge A because it apparently wasn't installed yet.

Obviously Alan was right because all went well after I unmerged B. The
problem remains that I am pretty sure I will draw the same conclusion
next time this happens. Well, I will read Alans explanation another
couple of times. Maybe enlightenment will eventual strike me. ;-)

Uwe

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