The reason is that the new perl conflicts with the older Test-Simple and FileSpec....all you need to do is emerge unmerge Test-Simple File-Spec
and then emerge k3b Cheers Simon On Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:10, Conrad Wolf wrote: > Hi Gentoo folks! > > When I tried to install K3B half an hour ago, portage gave me the > following list of dependencies and wouldn't want to emerge it. > > bash-2.05b# emerge -p k3b > > These are the packages that I would merge, in order: > > Calculating dependencies ...done! > [ebuild N ] app-cdr/cdrtools-2.01_alpha14 > [ebuild N ] media-sound/normalize-0.7.6-r1 > [blocks B ] <dev-perl/Test-Simple-0.47-r1 (from pkg > dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12) > [blocks B ] <dev-perl/File-Spec-0.84-r1 (from pkg > dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12) > [ebuild U ] dev-lang/perl-5.8.0-r12 [5.8.0-r10] > [ebuild N ] dev-perl/Audio-Tools-0.01 > [ebuild N ] dev-perl/MP3-Info-1.02-r1 > [ebuild N ] dev-util/pccts-1.33.33 > [ebuild N ] dev-perl/Audio-Wav-0.02 > [ebuild N ] app-cdr/cdrdao-1.1.7-r1 > [ebuild N ] app-cdr/k3b-0.8.1-r1 > > > I have no idea what these 2 block things are and where they come from. > Can I make portage ignore them or what other options do I have to > install K3B? > > Cheers, > Conrad. -- Simon Hansman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
