[clue-tech] Gentoo - still seeing blocks after unmerge

[Michael Irons]

On Thu March 1 2007, Dave Price wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I am trying to 'emerge -u world' my gentoo amd64 system.
>
> I get errors about blocking packeges ... so ran with --pretend and get:
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating world dependencies  ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ... done!
> [blocks B     ] =kde-base/kview-3.5* (is blocking
> kde-base/kdegraphics-3.5.5-r2) [blocks B     ]
> =kde-base/kimagemapeditor-3.5* (is blocking
> kde-base/kdewebdev-3.5.5)
> [blocks B     ] =kde-base/ksmserver-3.5* (is blocking
> kde-base/kdebase-3.5.5-r3) [blocks B     ] =kde-base/ktouch-3.5* (is
> blocking kde-base/kdeedu-3.5.5) [blocks B     ] >=x11-proto/xproto-7.0.6
> (is blocking x11-libs/libX11-1.0.1-r1) [blocks B     ]
> =kde-base/kopete-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdenetwork-3.5.5-r2) [blocks B 
>    ] =kde-base/kfloppy-3.5* (is blocking kde-base/kdeutils-3.5.5) [blocks B
>     ] =kde-base/kdepim-kresources-3.5*.....
> etc, lots of stuff about kde
>
> I did emerge -C (unmerge?) against the list of blocks, and now emerge
> --search say they are gone, but I still get the blocks when I try to
> upgrade.
>
> Is there something I am missing?

KDE caused me some problems also a few days ago...
 It looks like you are trying to emerge meta-packages and the packages those 
meta-packages contain (or portage is trying to do that at least). 

If you don't know kde is in split packages:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/kde-config.xml

For example you can't emerge kde-base/kimagemapeditor and
kde-base/kdewebdev (kdewebdev is the meta-package that contains 
kimagemapeditor). That's why you get all those blocks.  

Try tagging --tree on your emerge world statement and see what portage is 
trying to pull in and is causing the block, then work your way from there.

-- 

Michael Irons
michael |at| beckonsmeby |dot| com

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