Mailing List Archive: prelinking for a faster desktop

On Wed, 15 Sep 2004 17:40:52 +0200, Gerhard Hoogterp
<gerhard@frappe.xs4all.nl> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> After reading about prelinking I wanted to give things a try and tried to
> emerge prelink. Regretfully I got this:
>
> [blocks B ] dev-libs/libelf (from pkg dev-libs/elfutils-0.94-r1)
> [blocks B ] dev-libs/libelf (from pkg sys-devel/prelink-20040317)
> [ebuild N ] dev-libs/elfutils-0.94-r1 +nls -(uclibc) 793 kB
> [ebuild N ] sys-devel/prelink-20040317 880 kB
>
> and I don't really understand it. From the man page I understand that
> dev-libs/libelf is blocked by files from elfutils. But elfutils is new and
> should be installed? At least, at this moment it's not installed and neither
> is prelink..
>

I think dev-libs/libelf is blocking the other packages, not being
blocked by them. If you unmerge dev-libs/libelf you'll be able to
install prelink.

-Josh

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