Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread John covici
on Tuesday 04/29/2008 Ian Graeme Hilt([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Tuesday 29 April 2008 08:27:57 pm John covici wrote: I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world today and got the following strange message: [blocks B ] gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.0 (is blocking

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world today and got the following strange message: [blocks B ] gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.0 (is blocking dev-libs/libgweather-2.22.1.1) Now I have neither of these on my system, so what

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world today and got the following strange message: [blocks B ] gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.0 (is blocking

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: Hi.  The first case is the correct one -- the packages are in portage, but the version numbers listed are not on the system -- this is what I meant -- so I have two packages blocking each other the blocking versions are not on the system at all

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:24:59 -0400, John covici wrote: I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world today and got the following strange message: [blocks B ] gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.0 (is blocking dev-libs/libgweather-2.22.1.1) Hi. The first case is the

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:24:59 -0400, John covici wrote: I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world today and got the following strange message: [blocks B ] gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.0 (is

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 04/30/2008 John covici([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 07:24:59 -0400, John covici wrote: I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world today and got the following

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:03:29 -0400, John covici wrote: But now I have still more problems with blocking -- [blocks B ] media-libs/gst-plugins-ugly-0.10.6-r1 (is blocking media-libs/gstreamer-0.10.19) [blocks B ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am (is blocking dev-util/gtk-doc-1.8-r2) Please show

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: OK, here is the requested output. These questions are coming up a lot lately, and it's always the same stuff: how the hell do I read this output? I don;t have these things installed. Basic ideas of blockers; The output doesn't mean that you have

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:58:23 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: These questions are coming up a lot lately, and it's always the same stuff: how the hell do I read this output? I don;t have these things installed. [good stuff snipped] Two other things that help. You have 228 packages marked for

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Neil Bothwick([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:58:23 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: These questions are coming up a lot lately, and it's always the same stuff: how the hell do I read this output? I don;t have these things installed. [good

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: USE=doc adds extra documentation, usually API information for programmers, which is why it is rarely needed globally. The doc flag increases the dependencies of some packages, sometimes massively. Thanks Neil, thanks a lot for mentioning that.

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: I put the doc flag in there because a number of packages -- and I can't remember which ones now -- needed it, I think apache was one of them, so I gave up and did it -- maybe taking it out for the time being will help things along. 'equery hasuse

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Neil Bothwick wrote: USE=doc adds extra documentation, usually API information for programmers, which is why it is rarely needed globally. The doc flag increases the dependencies of some packages, sometimes

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 12:16:07 -0400, John covici wrote: I put the doc flag in there because a number of packages -- and I can't remember which ones now -- needed it, I think apache was one of them, so I gave up and did it -- maybe taking it out for the time being will help things along. I

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 19:00:40 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: Thanks Neil, thanks a lot for mentioning that. Now I have horrifying images burned into my brain of doxygen, openjade, SGML and DTDs lumbering out of holes in the ground and slithering towards me, zombie-like, hell bent on devouring

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:45:35 +0100, Uwe Thiem wrote: Thanks Neil, thanks a lot for mentioning that. Now I have horrifying images burned into my brain of doxygen, openjade, SGML and DTDs lumbering out of holes in the ground and slithering towards me, zombie-like, hell bent on devouring me

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: /me lumbers off in search of mind-altering substances with depressant side-effects Just watch TV for a while. Yeah right :-) 4 possibilities: SABC 1 SABC 2 SABC 3 eTV Which would you recommend? -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: OK, here is the requested output. These questions are coming up a lot lately, and it's always the same stuff: how the hell do I read this output? I don;t have these things

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote [nomerge ] media-sound/sound-juicer-2.22.0 [2.20.1-r1] USE=-debug -test (-flac%*) (-ogg%*) [ebuild U ] media-plugins/gst-plugins-meta-0.10-r2 [0.10] USE=X alsa

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Uwe Thiem
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Alan McKinnon wrote: On Wednesday 30 April 2008, Uwe Thiem wrote: /me lumbers off in search of mind-altering substances with depressant side-effects Just watch TV for a while. Yeah right :-) 4 possibilities: SABC 1 SABC 2 SABC 3 eTV Which would

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread John covici
on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: on Wednesday 04/30/2008 Alan McKinnon([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote [nomerge ] media-sound/sound-juicer-2.22.0 [2.20.1-r1] USE=-debug -test (-flac%*) (-ogg%*)

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 30 April 2008, John covici wrote: OK, I will try making all the gst-plugins unstable and see if that fixes things -- I have been warned not to convert the whole box to unstable -- is this a correct warning? Depends how much you adore gentoo and how much time you are willing to

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-30 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 17:15:12 -0400, John covici wrote: OK, I will try making all the gst-plugins unstable and see if that fixes things -- I have been warned not to convert the whole box to unstable -- is this a correct warning? I don't believe so. Marking a few packages as testing on

Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

2008-04-29 Thread Ian Graeme Hilt
On Tuesday 29 April 2008 08:27:57 pm John covici wrote: I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world today and got the following strange message: [blocks B ] gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.0 (is blocking dev-libs/libgweather-2.22.1.1) Looks like you're running unstable. In