Daniel da Veiga wrote: > On 2/16/06, Nick Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 2/16/06, Ghaith Hachem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > usualy portatge tells you what is blocking what >> > anyway try emerge -av it will give you an idea of what you need >> > >> right, but i want to know that the package im going to remove because >> its blocking something else isnt needed by another package on my >> system that has nothing to do with the package im trying to emerge. >> can that be done? am i making any sense?
Usually unmerging the blocker and re-emerging later on fixes it. Sometimes there may be a cyclical blocking scenario whereby the two packages (or their dependencies) are categorically incompatible. I don't believe there's an easy solution for such a predicament. In your case I would try to unmerge the blocker, emerge what you want, re-emerge the original blocker. If portage let's you do it then that's that. :) -- Regards, Mick -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
