On Thursday, May 22, 2014 05:08:17 PM Zoltán Kócsi wrote: > Hi, > > I'm fairly new to Gentoo and I have a blocking issue which I don't > really understand. > > I want to install some packages with docs but emerge tells me that it > can't do that. Quite interestingly it complains about blocked packages. > > One of them is openrc and the other is linux-util. I don't want to > delete either one, and wisely so, because even emerge tells me that > they are part of my system profile and should not be deleted. > > Now the actual questions I have are the following: > > - Why does emerge complain about blocking packages when I want to > recompile a few *other* packages, already on the system and all I > want is their documentation created? > > - If those two packages do indeed block each other, why are they in my > system profile, which was set up by Gentoo itself when I installed > the system? > > - If they block each other, how did both get installed on the machine? > > - Why do they block each other? As far as I could see, they are not > clashing, one is a SysV type init scripts and the 'rc' binary and the > other is all sorts of utilities and system management stuff. > > Thanks, > > Zoltan
Can you send the actual emerge-output you are seeing along with the full emerge-command you are issuing? Many thanks, Joost
