Re: [gentoo-user] strange blocks b behavior

on Tuesday 04/29/2008 Ian Graeme Hilt(ian.hilt@gmail.com) wrote
> On Tuesday 29 April 2008 08:27:57 pm John covici wrote:
> > I was trying to do an --update --deep --with-bdeps=y world
> > today and got the following strange message:
> > [blocks B ] <gnome-base/gnome-applets-2.22.0 (is blocking
> > dev-libs/libgweather-2.22.1.1)
>
> Looks like you're running unstable. In this case you're supposed
> to know what to do. <http://packages.gentoo.org/categories/> may
> have some helpful information.

Hmm, I did find the changelog for one of the packages in question, but it still makes no sense to me what is happening here -- I am not running completely unstable, just what portage tells me to unmask, otherwise the update does not go through at all.

Am I missing something here?

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         covici@ccs.covici.com
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