· Grant Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Why won't portage let me install kompare?
Because you already have it. > # emerge --pretend kompare > > These are the packages that would be merged, in order: > > Calculating dependencies... done! > [ebuild N ] kde-base/kompare-3.5.7 USE="arts -debug -kdeenablefinal > -kdehiddenvisibility -xinerama" > [blocks B ] =kde-base/kompare-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdesdk-3.5.7) > [blocks B ] =kde-base/kdesdk-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kompare-3.5.7) > > How does one figure out where these "blocks" are coming from? By having a look in the ebuilds. > There are no other versions of kompare installed. > kde-base/kdesdk-3.5.7 _is_ installed. There is no mention of > kde<anything> in /etc/portage/*. I suppose kompare is part of kdesdk. kdesdk is a huge package containing lots of stuff. So I suppose you cannot have both kdesdk and a broken out package (kompare) installed at the same time. > * kde-base/kdesdk > Latest version available: 3.5.7 > Latest version installed: 3.5.7 > Size of files: 5,088 kB > Homepage: http://www.kde.org/ > Description: KDE SDK: Cervisia, KBabel, KCachegrind, Kompare, > Umbrello,... > License: GPL-2 Yep. There it says: kdesdk also offers Kompare. Hm, why would you want to install Kompare, if you already have it installed? Michael Schmarck -- Why would anyone want to be called "Later"? -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
