Re: [gentoo-user] portage has blocking packages that are not installed
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 13:27 +0200, Alexander Meyer wrote: [blocks B ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0-r3 (is blocking media-libs/freetype-2.1.9-r1) What it says is that mozilla-firefox with a version number _smaller_ than 1.0-r3 is blocking freetype. but when i then try to unmerge firefox (emerge unmerge mozilla-firefox) this is what i get: snip These are the packages that I would unmerge: www-client/mozilla-firefox selected: 1.0_pre-r2 ...and 1.0_pre-2 is smaller than 1.0-r3. how can a package that is obviously not installed be blocking anything? It can't, but your package is installed and is blocking. and even more important: how do i resolve this issue? just unmerge the version of firefox that is installed? or update your firefox to a newer version. -- Janne -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] portage has blocking packages that are not installed
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 13:45 +0200, Alexander Meyer wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Janne Johansson wrote: On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 13:27 +0200, Alexander Meyer wrote: [blocks B ] www-client/mozilla-firefox-1.0-r3 (is blocking media-libs/freetype-2.1.9-r1) What it says is that mozilla-firefox with a version number _smaller_ than 1.0-r3 is blocking freetype. oh! but why doesn't it say so? I think it's trying to with the little '' character before the name of the blocking software. It's really easy to miss though. -- Janne -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Sound recorder in portage
On Mon, 2005-07-11 at 13:43 +0800, W.Kenworthy wrote: The current Audacity in portage has some dependencies I don't want to change on existing system. All I need is a simple sound recorder, and if it has a function to view the waveform (and even better edit it!) so much the better. Suggestions welcome I would recommend reZound. I've found it better than Audacity in many ways, but it might not be as simple as you hope for (lots of features). It is very easy to use, so give it a go. -- Janne -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] GNOME takes forever to start
On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 03:31 -0400, Colin wrote: I shut down my computer normally. When I turned it on, though, after logging into GNOME about an hour ago, I'm still waiting for it to boot. I enter my password, wait forever, and then the Gentoo logo pops up. Wait forever again, and then the icons appear in the box, and then the box disappears. Now I'm still waiting forever. Anybody know what's going on? GNOME never used to do this before. I had similar problems a while back. My problems were related to the gnome profile that I had messed up somehow. You could try removing the .gnome* and .gconf* directories form your home directory. -- Janne -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] what is the name of cdrom device decided by?
On Mon, 2005-05-23 at 12:45 +0800, ZeeGeek wrote: On 5/23/05, jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I used fedora, the cdrom device is named as /dev/cdrom . However, in my new gentoo system, it's recognized as /dev/hdd. Why is that? Could any one please explain it? And how can I change that device name back to /dev/cdrom? when you said you saw it was /dev/cdrom, it was just a link to /dev/hd*. the * depends on how many IDE drives you have. but I'm not sure if you can just make a link manually. You don't have to link anything manually. You can let udev handle it. There are plenty of tutorials on writing udev rules, have a look: http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html there is even an example named Example: Writing convenience rules for my CD drives. -- Janne -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
