On Mittwoch 12 November 2008, Harry Putnam 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 I've allowed my desktop OS to become somewhat outdated.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)
>
> (sorry but this is some 600 lines long)
>
> Possibly some other flags to emerge would be more helpful. If so
> please tell me and I'll post that as well.
>
> This output seems a little overwhelming but I hope someone who is used
> to deciphering such output will take time to look at it and maybe see
> how I can get started straightening it out.
>
> First a short look at the blocking lines:
>
> ===== * ===== * ===== * ===== * ===== * ===== * =====
>
> grep blocking outfile
>
> [blocks b ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-nsc ("x11-drivers/xf86-video-nsc"
> is blocking x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.2) [blocks b ]
> x11-drivers/xf86-video-vga ("x11-drivers/xf86-video-vga" is blocking
> x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.2) [blocks b ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-imstt
> ("x11-drivers/xf86-video-imstt" is blocking x11-base/xorg-server-1.5.2)
> [blocks b ] x11-drivers/xf86-video-cyrix
and you need all the videodrivers? I am sure not. So remove them and set
VIDEO_CARDS in makec.conf.
> [blocks b ] sys-libs/ss ("sys-libs/ss" is blocking
> sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.3) [blocks b ] sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs
> ("sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs" is blocking sys-libs/com_err-1.40.11,
> sys-libs/ss-1.40.11) [blocks b ] sys-libs/com_err
> ("sys-libs/com_err" is blocking sys-libs/e2fsprogs-libs-1.41.3) [blocks b
> ] <sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.41 ("<sys-fs/e2fsprogs-1.41" is blocking
this has been discussed on this list SEVERAL TIMES. Search is your friend.
Just install the latest portage. It has a block breaking function. Then
upgrade e2fsprogs like described a few douzend times on this ml and in the
forums. Remove all the acient video drivers you don't need anyway. After that,
most blocks should be gone.
