on Thursday 05/01/2008 Michael Sullivan([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote
> I'm trying to install a package that is being blocked by a package that
> portage claims is not even installed:
>
> catherine ~ # emerge -av =dev-util/gtk-doc-am-1.10-r1
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild N ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am-1.10-r1 395 kB
> [blocks B ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am (is blocking
> dev-util/gtk-doc-1.8-r2)
>
> Total: 1 package (1 new, 1 block), Size of downloads: 395 kB
>
> !!! Error: The above package list contains packages which cannot be
> installed
> !!! at the same time on the same system.
>
> For more information about Blocked Packages, please refer to the
> following
> section of the Gentoo Linux x86 Handbook (architecture is irrelevant):
>
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?full=1#blocked
>
> catherine ~ # emerge -pv dev-util/gtk-doc-am
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating dependencies... done!
> [ebuild N ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am-1.10-r1 395 kB
> [blocks B ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am (is blocking
> dev-util/gtk-doc-1.8-r2)
>
> Total: 1 package (1 new, 1 block), Size of downloads: 395 kB
>
> What should I do?
What I did was to unmerge dev-util/gtk-doc and that seemed to fix
things. You might want to look at a previous thread of a couple of
days ago which I started and was quite informative.
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