Re: [gentoo-user] portage has blocking packages that are not installed

2005-07-28 Thread Alexander Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alexander Meyer wrote: > Janne Johansson wrote: > how can a package that is obviously not installed be blocking anything? >>> >>> >>>It can't, but your package is installed and is blocking. BTW: unmerging the installed version of firefox worked f

Re: [gentoo-user] portage has blocking packages that are not installed

2005-07-28 Thread Janne Johansson
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 13:45 +0200, Alexander Meyer wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Janne Johansson wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 13:27 +0200, Alexander Meyer wrote: > > > > > >>[blocks B ] >>media-libs/freetype-2.1.9-r1) > > > > > > What it says is that moz

Re: [gentoo-user] portage has blocking packages that are not installed

2005-07-28 Thread Alexander Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Janne Johansson wrote: > On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 13:27 +0200, Alexander Meyer wrote: > > >>[blocks B ] >media-libs/freetype-2.1.9-r1) > > > What it says is that mozilla-firefox with a version number _smaller_ > than 1.0-r3 is blocking freetype.

Re: [gentoo-user] portage has blocking packages that are not installed

2005-07-28 Thread Janne Johansson
On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 13:27 +0200, Alexander Meyer wrote: > [blocks B ] media-libs/freetype-2.1.9-r1) What it says is that mozilla-firefox with a version number _smaller_ than 1.0-r3 is blocking freetype. > but when i then try to unmerge firefox ("emerge unmerge > mozilla-firefox") this is

[gentoo-user] portage has blocking packages that are not installed

2005-07-28 Thread Alexander Meyer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi list, this probably isn't new but i didnt find any reference to it on the web and in the mailing list archives, so i'd like to apologize in advance to repost a possibly long answered question. when i try to "emerge system --deep --newuse -upv" por