On Sunday 21 September 2008 10:16:44 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > another problem which did exist before the bug in eix... > > After > > emerge --color=n --verbose --update --deep world > > I get a list of new/updatable package. And I got blocking packages as > well. > I (think to) know, what "blocked" means, but this:
"block" means that two packages cannot be installed on the same machine at the same time. The most common reason is that they want to install the exact same files, and portage would have no way of knowing which package provided a file and if everything else that is necessary is actually on the system. You have run slap bang into the infamous kde-meta problem :-) Solution here: http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/kde/kde-split-ebuilds.xml Beware: fixing this is relatively straightforward, but it is mind-numbingly tedious and takes a long time while portage recompiles kde -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
