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portage conflict
\ Sergey Kobzar (14 Apr 2008)
. \ Etaoin Shrdlu (14 Apr 2008)
. . \ Sergey Kobzar (14 Apr 2008)
. \ Jacques Montier (14 Apr 2008)
. \ Emil Beinroth (14 Apr 2008)
. \ Mateusz A. Mierzwin'ski (14 Apr 2008)
. \ alain.didierjean (14 Apr 2008)

Subject:	Re: portage conflict
Group:	Gentoo-user
From:	alain.didierjean
Date:	14 Apr 2008

Selon Sergey Kobzar <tod.zullu>:

> After portage tree update I have
>
>
> # emerge -upvDN world
>
> These are the packages that would be merged, in order:
>
> Calculating world dependencies... done!
> [ebuild U ] net-misc/rsync-2.6.9-r6 [2.6.9-r5] USE="-acl -ipv6 -static
> -xinetd" 793 kB
> [ebuild U ] sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r1 [6.9-r1] USE="nls -acl (-selinux)
> -static -vanilla% -xattr" 3,670 kB
> [blocks B ] sys-apps/mktemp (is blocking sys-apps/coreutils-6.10-r1)
> [blocks B ] >=sys-apps/coreutils-6.10 (is blocking sys-apps/mktemp-1.5)
>
> Total: 2 packages (2 upgrades, 2 blocks), Size of downloads: 4,462 kB
>
>
> and can't update world.
>
> I thought unmerge sys-apps/coreutils or sys-apps/mktemp and then
> update world, but it may corrupt my system.

DO NOT, repeat DO NOT, under any circumstance unmerge coreutils.
You would find yourself without the most commonly used commands:
cat, ls, cp, mv, ln, id, chmod, chgrp, chown, tr, cut, join, split, mkdir,
mknod, mkfifo, nice, nohup, paste...
about 100 of them. Then emerge can't work anymore (and a few more scripts).
You're stuck.
I know, I did it once. Getting back a working system was hairy...
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