Mailing List Archive: blocking packages: which one I would miss more?

Hi all

After emgerging the new stable portage package, I've got some extra
blocking messages:

root@sys# emerge -pvuDt world

These are the packages that I would merge, in reverse order:

Calculating world dependencies ... ...done!
[blocks B ] sys-apps/module-init-tools (from pkg
sys-apps/modutils-2.4.25)
[blocks B ] sys-apps/modutils (from pkg
sys-apps/module-init-tools-3.0-r2)
[blocks B ] sys-kernel/linux-headers (from pkg
sys-kernel/linux26-headers-2.6.8.1)
[blocks B ] sys-apps/sysvinit (from pkg sys-apps/baselayout-1.9.4-r5)
[nomerge ] dev-util/glade-2.0.1 -gnome -gnomedb
[nomerge ] app-text/scrollkeeper-0.3.14 +nls
[ebuild U ] app-text/docbook-xml-dtd-4.1.2-r5 [4.1.2-r4] 0 kB
[nomerge ] app-text/docbook-sgml-utils-0.6.12 +tetex*
[ebuild NS ] app-text/docbook-xml-dtd-4.3 0 kB
[ebuild U ] app-text/docbook-xsl-stylesheets-1.65.1 [1.62.4] 0 kB
[ebuild N ] app-text/build-docbook-catalog-1.2 0 kB
[ebuild U ] app-text/docbook-sgml-dtd-3.1-r2 [3.1-r1] 0 kB
[ebuild U ] app-text/docbook-sgml-dtd-3.0-r2 [3.0-r1] 0 kB
[ebuild U ] dev-perl/SGMLSpm-1.03-r5 [1.03-r4] 0 kB
[ebuild U ] app-text/docbook-sgml-dtd-4.0-r2 [4.0-r1] 0 kB
[ebuild U ] app-text/docbook-sgml-dtd-4.1-r2 [4.1-r1] 0 kB
[ebuild U ] net-www/mozilla-1.7.3 [1.7.2] +crypt -debug -gnome -gtk2
+java +ldap -mozcalendar -mozdevelop -moznocompose +moznoirc -moznomail
-moznoxft -mozsvg -mozxmlterm +ssl -xinerama +xprint* 0 kB
...

I'musing gentoo-dev-sources, so I've already unmerged the third blocker,
linux-headers, and now I've got only the first two and the fourth.

As it seems, I should choose between modutils or module-init-tools and
between sysvinit or baselayout

Which ones should I keep? What will I loose?

Thanks

P.S.: many packages are 0kB because I've already downloaded them.

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On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 18:58, Francisco Ares wrote:
> [blocks B ] sys-apps/module-init-tools (from pkg
> sys-apps/modutils-2.4.25)
> [blocks B ] sys-apps/modutils (from pkg
> sys-apps/module-init-tools-3.0-r2)

[snip]

> As it seems, I should choose between modutils or module-init-tools and
> between sysvinit or baselayout
>
> Which ones should I keep? What will I loose?

I just went through this same issue, and several people here reported
that module-init-tools provides everything for newer kernels that was
previously provided by modutils. You're probably safe to `emerge -C
modutils`

If you want proof, do:
`emerge -pv gentoolkit`
`emerge gentoolkit`
`qpkg -q modutils`
`qpkg -q moudle-init-tools`

The qpkg commands will list what depends on the packages for which
they're called. Whichever one has no dependers; that's the one you want
to unmerge!

Good Luck,
Dave

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