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 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
