On Wed, 8 Feb 2006, 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.
You installed one of the meta packages instead of what's inside. While
covienient for time, it sometimes makes it a pain to individually manage
packages. My favorored way is emerge -pv kdebase-meta, then individually
installing the things in there. kdm is a dependancy of kdesktop, so it
should already be on there.
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