Why doesn't emerge go as far as it can and stop before the actual blocker instead of just refusing to do anything at all? E.g. strider root # emerge --pretend --update world These are the packages that I would merge, in order: Calculating world dependencies ...done! [ebuild U ] media-libs/libexif-0.5.10 [0.5.9] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/pciutils-2.1.11 [2.1.10-r1] [ebuild U ] sys-apps/hotplug-20030501-r2 [20020401-r1] [ebuild U ] media-libs/libgphoto2-2.1.1-r3 [2.1.1-r2] [ebuild U ] media-video/avifile-0.7.38.20030710 [0.7.37.20030522-r2] [blocks B ] >=sys-libs/db-4* (from pkg x11-misc/hotkeys-0.5.7.1-r1) [ebuild U ] sys-libs/db-3.2.9-r7 [4.0.14-r1] [ebuild U ] x11-misc/hotkeys-0.5.7.1-r1 [0.5.7.1] [ebuild U ] gnome-extra/libgtkhtml-3.0.8-r1 [3.0.8] strider root # emerge --update world Calculating world dependencies ...done! !!! Error: the >=sys-libs/db-4* package conflicts with another package. !!! both can't be installed on the same system together. !!! Please use 'emerge --pretend' to determine blockers. strider root # emerge --update libexif Calculating dependencies ...done! >>> emerge (1 of 1) media-libs/libexif-0.5.10 to / >>> Downloading http://gentoo.oregonstate.edu/distfiles/libexif-0.5.10.tar.gz [...] Wouldn't it be better to have it run until it actually hits the block? Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3.
Because you might want to change the packages you are merging.
> Because you might want to change the packages you are merging. "might" ? How do you emerge this without changing the packages then? You can't. Seems all my bug reports end up in Gentoo Bugfix Category 1, "no idea how to best tackle this, let's wait a year and see if it goes away", or GBC 2, "I'll just close the case with a vaguely relevant comment". Anyway, no point in posting bug reports so I won't even reopen this one.
