Comments on: Things every new Gentoo admin/user should know. http://morgajel.net/2005/12/19/37/ Stemming the flow of evincible Ignorance. We must try to understand for the sake of understanding. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 22:52:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: DrTebi http://morgajel.net/2005/12/19/37/#comment-8381 DrTebi Sat, 08 Sep 2007 01:27:50 +0000 http://morgajel.net/2005/12/19/37/#comment-8381 python-updater is certainly something to get pissed off about. As if it isn't enough pain that one has to update "emerge" almost every time that some security issued package has to be updated. No, now it even tells me it will need Python to be updated, BUT, it cannot do that because python-updater is blocking it. What the heck? # emerge -v python These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies... done! [ebuild NS ] dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r4 USE="berkdb gdbm ipv6 ncurses readline ssl -bootstrap -build -doc -examples -nocxx -nothreads -tk -ucs2" 7,976 kB [ebuild N ] app-admin/python-updater-0.2 3 kB [blocks B ] python-updater is certainly something to get pissed off about. As if it isn’t enough pain that one has to update “emerge” almost every time that some security issued package has to be updated. No, now it even tells me it will need Python to be updated, BUT, it cannot do that because python-updater is blocking it. What the heck?

# emerge -v python

These are the packages that would be merged, in order:

Calculating dependencies… done!
[ebuild NS ] dev-lang/python-2.4.4-r4 USE=”berkdb gdbm ipv6 ncurses readline ssl -bootstrap -build -doc -examples -nocxx -nothreads -tk -ucs2″ 7,976 kB
[ebuild N ] app-admin/python-updater-0.2 3 kB
[blocks B ]

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