Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with udpate

2005-09-12 Thread Sébastien MORAND
You clearly know how to clear a block, but your syntax for unmerging the blocking packages is wrong, which is why it's not working. If you want to unmerge the specific version of the package (for this example, let us assume php-5.0.5), the correct syntax is emerge -C =dev-php/php-5.0.5 If

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem with udpate

2005-09-12 Thread Sébastien MORAND
This is Gentoo's daft syntax again! What you need here is not # emerge -C giflib, as you would reasonably expect, but # emerge -C libungif I can't do that, libungif is required on my system. I'm pretty sure some programs won't run anymore if I remove it, but I can test anyway

[gentoo-user] Depclean

2005-08-19 Thread Sébastien MORAND
Hi everybody, I'm trying to clean my install (one year old, so it's time to do it). I run an update, and run : emerge --newuse -Dvu world It installs a lot of update and so on and do everything ok. Afterwards, I run : revdep-rebuild It makes a lot of rebuild about some broken link, I also