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logrotate vs Portage

Earlier today, I ran head-first into my first serious emerge block: Portage refuses to update because it is blocked by logrotate.

The ‘standard’ way to resolve a block is to unmerge whatever’s blocking Portage (logrotate in this case), update Portage, then re-emerge the unmerged package.

Problem is: logrotate is a dependency of squid, and the squid must not be interrupted.

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