Apparently I need to be more actively reading these posts. Thanks Renat!

On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 14:34, Renat Golubchyk wrote:
> On Wednesday 06 August 2003 21:05, Christopher Egner wrote:
> > emerge -p xft
> >
> > These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
> >
> > Calculating dependencies ...done!
> > [blocks B    ] >=x11-base/xfree-4.3.0-r2 (from pkg
> > x11-libs/xft-2.0.1-r2)
> > [ebuild   R  ] x11-libs/xft-2.0.1-r2
> >
> >
> > Ok, I understand the message, honestly. xfree is blocking xft. So my
> > question is, can xft just be removed (there's no upgrade here, both are
> > the most recent version). I guess I'm lost as to what the problem is.
> > They're both installed already, so how could they be blocking one
> > another. This came up originally looking through an emerge -upD world.
> >
> > I'm thinking perhaps xft got packaged officially into xfree maybe?
> Xft is included with the latest xfree, so there is no need for a separately 
> installed version. There was a thread on this last week:
> 
> http://news.gmane.org/onethread.php?group=gmane.linux.gentoo.user&root=%3C873C20BA05C8AF44BED3FE31B3959CF9036E67%40figdc03.figueroa.drf%3E
> 
> or here is the first message
> 
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.gentoo.user/41901
> 
> 
> Hope it helps.
> 
> Cheers,
> Renat
> 
> 
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