On Sunday 22 March 2009 17:35:56 Michael P. Soulier wrote: > On 21/03/09 Nick Fortino said: > > Hmm, that's odd. gtk+ does flag the fact that it includes gail with the > > block you are running into, and gail-1000 is used to make programs which > > depend on gail happy. emerge -uDN world should really just take care of > > this, as gail should be upgraded to gail-1000. > > At the end of the day, Daniel is right, unmerging gail should resolve the > > block, and everything should work when you are done upgrading. Portage > > should (and did for me) take care of this on it's own though. > > Hmm. Is it possible that I don't have the latest portage? > > I have sys-apps/portage-2.1.6.7. > > emerge --pretend --update sys-apps/portage > > shows nothing so I guess I have the latest one...
You have the latest *stable* portage. There are others in the unstable branch with the latest cutting-edge features. Lucky for us, Zac has done an excellent job in the last year of stopping just short of the bleeding edge -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com
