emerge -u world BLOCKED

janpla · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 75

I wanted to do a emerge -uD world, but it tells me it's blocked. emerge -uD world --pretend returns:

Calculating world dependencies ...done!
[blocks B ] <=x11-themes/gnome-themes-2.8.2 (is blocking x11-themes/gtk-engines-2.6.3)
[blocks B ] <app-admin/gnome-system-tools-1.1.91 (is blocking app-admin/system-tools-backends-1.2.0)
[ebuild U ] dev-util/strace-4.5.11 [4.5.9]
[ebuild U ] app-shells/bash-3.0-r11 [2.05b-r9]
....

etc etc

Is there a way to permanently resolve this problem, so that I can just run emerge -uD world in the future?

GexNZ · n00b Joined: 04 Oct 2004 Posts: 30 Location: NZ

You have to unmerge the blocking packages:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-346214
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-346366
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-305240-start-600.html

ansient · Guru Joined: 22 Jan 2005 Posts: 445 Location: Argentina

You mean...

kallamej · Posted: Mon Jun 13, 2005 11:40 am Post subject:

There is no general way to solve future blockers once and for all. Please see the above mentioned threads for this particular case. Moved from Portage & Programming to Duplicate Threads.