On Monday 24 November 2003 19:50, LJN wrote:
> On Mon, 2003-11-24 at 11:19, Lars Juel Nielsen wrote:
> > how would one deal with this situation? what options are there and why
> > is which better in what cases?
> >
> >
> > These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
> >
> > Calculating world dependencies ...done!
> > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/man-pages-1.61 [1.56]
> > [blocks B ] <dev-perl/ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.05-r6 (from pkg
> > dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12)
> > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/groff-1.18.1-r3 [1.18.1-r2]
> > [ebuild U ] sys-libs/db-4.0.14-r2 [3.2.9-r7]
> > [ebuild U ] sys-devel/automake-1.7.5-r2 [1.7.2]
> > [ebuild N ] sys-apps/coreutils-5.0-r3
> > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/debianutils-1.16.7-r3 [1.16.7-r2]
> > [ebuild U ] sys-libs/ncurses-5.3-r2 [5.3-r1]
> > [ebuild U ] app-shells/bash-2.05b-r7 [2.05b-r5]
> > [ebuild U ] dev-libs/openssl-0.9.6k [0.9.6j]
> > [ebuild U ] dev-lang/python-2.2.3-r5 [2.2.3-r1]
> > [ebuild U ] sys-apps/portage-2.0.49-r15 [2.0.48-r5]
> > *** Portage will stop merging at this point and reload itself,
> > recalculate dependencies, and complete the merge.
> >
> > [ebuild U ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12 [5.8.0-r10]
<snip>
You haven't updated in a while, have you? perl assimilated the functionality
of ExtUtils-MakeMaker into itself. Thus, the two packages provide the same
files. If you just unmerge ExtUtils-MakeMaker nothing will break after perl
is updated too and the blocker will be gone.
Jason
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