Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2

2008-10-30 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 29 October 2008 19:59:11 Alan McKinnon wrote: A last note on emerge's output, especially with blockers: the time spent to read all the portage pages (several times) is time very well spent. I recommend when next you get blockers, is to rerun emerge with -t and take note of what

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2

2008-10-30 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 10:23 PM, Andrey Vul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I usually use emerge -p file in order to see the difference in dependencies from testing USE flags. I would always choose -pN over -aN. Where's the portage to-do list? If you can find it, add these two items: fix the

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2

2008-10-29 Thread Andrey Vul
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 12:33 PM, Rafael Barrera Oro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello people, i tried to install kde-meta-4.1.2 and i ran across a few problems. The thing is that some packages are blocking packages required for the installation The following is output of portage when displaying

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2

2008-10-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 29 October 2008 18:41:47 Andrey Vul wrote: [blocks B     ] sys-fs/udev-114 (sys-fs/udev-114 is blocking media-gfx/sane-backends-1.0.19-r2, media-libs/libgphoto2-2.4.2) My usual solution for problems of this kind is to mercilessly unmerge any packages that stand in my way,

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2

2008-10-29 Thread Rafael Barrera Oro
Thank you both for your responses, i will try dealing with QT first and then emerge udev separately, without any mercilless barbaric running-around-barely-dressed-waving-an-axe-around unmerging. I'm gonna miss the sledgehammer though... Seroiusly, thanks very much for your help PD: As soon as i

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2

2008-10-29 Thread Andrey Vul
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 1:03 PM, Rafael Barrera Oro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thank you both for your responses, i will try dealing with QT first and then emerge udev separately, without any mercilless barbaric running-around-barely-dressed-waving-an-axe-around unmerging. It'll be faster do do

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2

2008-10-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 29 October 2008 19:03:51 Rafael Barrera Oro wrote: Thank you both for your responses, i will try dealing with QT first and then emerge udev separately, without any mercilless barbaric running-around-barely-dressed-waving-an-axe-around unmerging. There you go, that's a good lad :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2

2008-10-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:14:34 -0400, Andrey Vul wrote: emerge -av1 udev I prefer emerge -1pv udev look at output emerge -1 udev Which means you have to wait for the dependency resolver to run twice. Which is why it's better to use emerge -1av udev look at output press enter -- Neil

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2

2008-10-29 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wednesday 29 October 2008 22:46:34 Neil Bothwick wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:14:34 -0400, Andrey Vul wrote: emerge -av1 udev I prefer emerge -1pv udev look at output emerge -1 udev Which means you have to wait for the dependency resolver to run twice. Which is why it's better

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2

2008-10-29 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 23:52:25 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: emerge -1av udev look at output press enter you have it wrong: emerge -1av udev do not press enter look at output press enter Looking at the output only confuses me, I prefer to skip that step :) -- Neil Bothwick The

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2

2008-10-29 Thread Andrey Vul
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 4:46 PM, Neil Bothwick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 29 Oct 2008 13:14:34 -0400, Andrey Vul wrote: emerge -av1 udev I prefer emerge -1pv udev look at output emerge -1 udev Which means you have to wait for the dependency resolver to run twice. Which is why it's

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2

2008-10-29 Thread Joshua Murphy
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Andrey Vul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't like package managers which require interactivity. emerge -uvDp world | less is easier to parse then emerge -upDa world. Why? Because I don't have to find a way of transferring return if less handles all of the

Re: [gentoo-user] Trying to solve blockage when trying to install kde-meta-4.1.2

2008-10-29 Thread Andrey Vul
On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Joshua Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2008 at 7:26 PM, Andrey Vul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't like package managers which require interactivity. emerge -uvDp world | less is easier to parse then emerge -upDa world. Why? Because I don't