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Graham Murray wrote:
> Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
>> unmerge the blocking packages, coldplug, pam-login and ant-tasks. This
>> usually happens because the functionality the package provides is now
>> handled by something else that emerge world needs to bring it. This is
>> certainly the case with udev now handling coldplug's job.
> 
> Which begs the question that if attempting to rebuild all the packages
> in a working system indicates blockers, how did the system get in that
> state and why did portage not indicate a blockage when the incompatible
> packages were installed or upgraded?

Just because they are conflicting now doesn't mean that there was
conflicting packages before. Upgrades do happen, and things do change ;)
Every time you sync and get a new ebuild, you are generally getting a
new version of the package (assuming there is a new version available).

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Jeremy Olexa
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Office: EE/CS 1-201
CS/IT Systems Staff
University of Minnesota

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