On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 9:58 AM, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've allowed my desktop OS to become somewhat outdated. And I haven't > followed all the recent changes to gentoo, so of course I am a little > baffled by what appears to a real mess of overlapping dependencies or > something causing 16 different blocking problems. > > The output of emerge -vuDNp shows a message saying I might be able > solve some of the problem with masking but that appears to be only one > small part of the blocking. > > I've included below some long output from: > > emerge -vuDNpt world (to show the interdependence's) >
Take a look at emerge -pvDuN system first. Get that up to date. Dan's instructions should get you past some of this. For now make ##sure## you do an emerge -f to fetch files you might need. (Or use another local machine to get copies from if you break something. You'll get through it but it might be a bit of work. good luck, Mark
