I think it's bidirections. Becourse I got 'A blocks B' one, when both of
them weren't installed.(I was installing C,and I don't know why C
depends on both A and B).

On 14:55 Thu 10 Apr   , Uwe Thiem wrote:
> 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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