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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