Hi, Neil. On Fri, Jul 01, 2011 at 01:17:01PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 1 Jul 2011 10:39:18 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> > After emerge-synching, an emerge -puND gives, in part: > > [ebuild N ] x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.28.1 > > [ebuild U ] x11-libs/vte-0.28.1-r200 [0.26.2] > > USE="introspection*" [blocks b ] <x11-libs/vte-0.27.90 > > ("<x11-libs/vte-0.27.90" is blocking x11-libs/gnome-pty-helper-0.28.1) > > . Am I right in thinking that the block means "your vte version is too > > old for gnome-pty-helper"? > Yes, but the lower case b means that portage will resolve the block for > you. The only reason it has stopped after reporting the block is that > you used -p. > Only blocks marked with a B require manual intervention. Ah, thanks! I just did an "emerge -uND world" and it worked. My Gnome still works too, thankfully. ;-) Thanks to everybody else who answered, too. -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).