Re: [gentoo-user] [blocks B ] dev-perl

2003-07-29 Thread Anthony Floyd
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 07:38:24 -0700 Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have seen this 'blocks' thing a bunch recently. Is this a problem? What is emerge telling me? That I cannot emerge this program? I have not been following any discussions in this area on the list. Do I need

RE: [gentoo-user] [blocks B ] dev-perl

2003-07-29 Thread Mark Knecht
emerge ExtUtils-MakeMaker -C emerge babygimp -vp Dhruba, OK, thanks. That will apparently work, but why has this happened? I'd like to understand why, after being a Gentoo user for 4-5 months, I'm suddenly seeing a bunch of these sorts of messages. Is this due to some new portage policy? I

RE: [gentoo-user] [blocks B ] dev-perl

2003-07-29 Thread Mark Knecht
Mark, check out this week's GWN: http://www.gentoo.org/news/en/gwn/20030728-newsletter.xml The long and short of it is that due to changes in the way modules are handled with Perl, some modules need to be remerged. Well, some module might not be needed separately at all. So, unmerge