Zack Medico

A while ago I wrote a blog entry about using blockers to adjust merge order. Now, in portage-2.1.5, blockers are also resolved automatically in cases when it makes sense to uninstall a conflicting package (bug #172812). This feature should allow automatic resolution of blocker conflicts in many more cases than previously possible, so Gentoo users won't be inconvenienced with the task of resolving them manually.

gtk-doc-am vs. gtk-doc-1.8-r2

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

Calculating dependencies... done!
[nomerge      ] x11-libs/gtk+-2.12.9-r2  USE="X cups jpeg tiff xinerama -debug -doc -vim-syntax"
[ebuild  N    ]  dev-util/gtk-doc-am-1.10-r1  0 kB
[blocks b     ] dev-util/gtk-doc-am (is blocking dev-util/gtk-doc-1.8-r2)
[uninstall    ]  dev-util/gtk-doc-1.8-r2  USE="emacs -debug -doc"

Total: 1 package (1 new, 1 uninstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
Conflict: 1 block

coreutils vs. mktemp

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

Calculating dependencies... done!
[ebuild     U ] sys-apps/coreutils-6.11 [6.9-r1] USE="acl nls xattr (-selinux) -static -vanilla%" 0 kB
[blocks b     ]  sys-apps/mktemp (is blocking sys-apps/coreutils-6.11)
[blocks b     ] >=sys-apps/coreutils-6.10 (is blocking sys-apps/mktemp-1.5)
[uninstall    ]  sys-apps/mktemp-1.5

Total: 1 package (1 upgrade, 1 uninstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB
Conflict: 2 blocks