On Thu, Feb 16 2012, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:31:02 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: > >> That's it! I had collision-protect in make.conf. I just now removed it >> and indeed emerge --info shows protect-owned. I have an emerge of >> libreoffice running now. But hope tomorrow to be able to retry the >> nvidia-drivers emerge and see if it goes through. > > There's no reason why you can't do it while the LO emerge is still > running.
First, let me report success (I ran the emerge of nvidia-drivers after LO finished and it worked fine) and thanks. I didn't realize that I could run emerges together. The emerge of LO was the penultimate merge coming from an emerge update world (the last was LO-l10n) While this LO merge was in progress could I have safely started another emerge update world ? I am guessing the point is that, since the running emerge was essentially just LO, it was safe to run the nvidia-drivers emerge since there are no shared dependencies. Is emerge by some chance clever enough that you can always start an update world, while one is running? thanks again, allan