On Wednesday 08 February 2006 15:45, Daniel D Jones wrote: > Can someone either explain or give me a pointer to an explanation for the > following: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ # emerge --pretend kdm > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdm-3.5.1) > [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/libkonq-3.5.1) > [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.5* (is blocking > kde-base/kicker-3.5.1-r1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.5* (is > blocking > kde-base/kdebase-data-3.5.1) > [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.5* (is blocking > kde-base/khotkeys-3.5.1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.5* (is > blocking kde-base/kdesu-3.5.0) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.5* (is > blocking kde-base/kcontrol-3.5.1) [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.5* > (is blocking > kde-base/khelpcenter-3.5.1) > [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdebase-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kcminit-3.5.0) > [ebuild N ] kde-base/libkonq-3.5.1 > [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdebase-data-3.5.1 > [ebuild N ] kde-base/kicker-3.5.1-r1 > [ebuild N ] kde-base/khotkeys-3.5.1 > [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdesu-3.5.0 > [ebuild N ] kde-base/khelpcenter-3.5.1 > [ebuild N ] kde-base/kcminit-3.5.0 > [ebuild N ] kde-base/kcontrol-3.5.1 > [ebuild N ] kde-base/kdm-3.5.1 > > > Particularly, what does the 3.5* mean? > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/ # equery list kdebase > [ Searching for package 'kdebase' in all categories among: ] > * installed packages > [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdebase-pam-6 (0) > [I--] [ ] kde-base/kdebase-3.5.1-r1 (3.5) > > I have kdebase-3.5.1-r1 installed. Why is kdm-3.5.1 blocked? Surely > kdebase is a requirement for kdm, and it makes no sense to say that > kdm-3.5.1 needs an earlier version of kdebase, does it? I'm probably > missing some fundamental understanding of what's going on here. Thanks for > any assistance.
because you cannot install monolithic kde and split kde ebuilds at the same time? Also, WHY do you want to install kdm? It is part of kdebase, so you already have it installed. -- [email protected] mailing list
